Remembrance Today is the UK's Remembrance Sunday. Seeing the preparations for this commemoration in the last few days, during the country's four...
In the booklight My fellow Nine Arches poet Sarah James has been kind enough to publish an interview with me on her blog, as part of a new series called '...
the terrible On Thursday night this week I was in Birmingham to read in support of the launch of Daniel Sluman's the terrible , his striking second c...
Two readings for February Poetry people are hardy, resilient folk, so I'm sure some of them won't mind braving the plummeting temperatures and the dark nights...
Arc is nearly here... I have just finished looking at the page proofs for my forthcoming collection, Arc , with Nine Arches Press. The cover image by Eleanor Ben...
What's going on? At the risk of shameless self-publicity, here are a couple of things that have been happening lately that I wanted to mention. Firstly, in t...
Things I'm Glad I Read in 2014 #5 Happy New Year! To celebrate, here is the fifth and final instalment in my end-of-year round-up of collections I particularly enjoyed in 201...
Things I'm Glad I Read in 2014 #2 Like Rosemary Tonks, discussed in the first of these end-of-year posts, Bobby Parker seems propelled by the energy of pure honesty. In his c...
Guest Poet - Daniel Sluman I'm very pleased to have secured Daniel Sluman for a guest poet slot on this blog - the next in an as yet rather irregular, but hopefull...
Eros and Thanatos I don't know who it was who originally observed that poetry tends to be about sex, death and poetry - but Daniel Sluman's fascinatin...
What a Shindig! I was honoured to be invited to read as a guest poet at Shindig!, a Leicester poetry event organised by Crystal Clear Creators and Nine Arch...
The Oblivion Breakfast Table C.J. Allen I've already mentioned my admiration for the poetry of C. J. Allen. After reading his new collection (which it took Amazon an...
A New Collection from C.J. Allen I'm very excited to discover, via Matt Merrit's blog , that C.J. Allen has just released a new collection with Nine Arches Press, ca...