October 2021
On 17th November at 7.30pm I'll be reading with Julian Roup at Ashdown Park Hotel, Wych Cross, Sussex. The reading will be in aid of the Forest and will be hosted by Natasha Kaplinsky. Tickets are £15, available from Ashdown Forest's website.
August 2021
I am as pleased as Punch to announce that I'm now a presenter on WildHart Radio. The first episode of my show The Poetry Bath, in which I chat with Sarah Salway about her transition from journalism to fiction and poetry and about the importance of being silly, is available on catch-up.
July 2021
I will be running a workshop and reading with (unplugged) open mic on Ashdown Forest on 18th August as part of the Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival.
March 2021
I've once again faced the embarrassment of hearing myself speak and have added two more poetry recordings to my YouTube channel.
February 2021
My review of Susie Campbell's Tenter appears in Tears in the Fence.
December 2020
My poem Harvest appears in One Hand Clapping.
September 2020
One Piece Missing from the Edge appears in the anthology Beyond the Storm: Poems from the Covid-19 Era.
July 2020
I am proud to announce that I've faced the excruciating ordeal of recording myself reading poems. Six pieces from my new collection Ashdown are now available to listen to on YouTube. They are:
Crossing the Pale
Hindleap, along with a short introduction to the poems
Goat Cross
Gills Lap
The Lancaster Room
Hindleap, Christmas Morning 1982
Each video is illustrated by Reem Acason and Ashdown is available from Paekakariki Press.
My poem Mayfield to Ashdown, 3rd January 2019 appears in Tears in the Fence, No 71 Spring 2020, along with Paul Matthews' review of Ashdown.
Sympathetic Magic is published in Popshot: The Mystery Issue, 27, Spring 2020.
On 17th November at 7.30pm I'll be reading with Julian Roup at Ashdown Park Hotel, Wych Cross, Sussex. The reading will be in aid of the Forest and will be hosted by Natasha Kaplinsky. Tickets are £15, available from Ashdown Forest's website.
August 2021
I am as pleased as Punch to announce that I'm now a presenter on WildHart Radio. The first episode of my show The Poetry Bath, in which I chat with Sarah Salway about her transition from journalism to fiction and poetry and about the importance of being silly, is available on catch-up.
July 2021
I will be running a workshop and reading with (unplugged) open mic on Ashdown Forest on 18th August as part of the Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival.
March 2021
I've once again faced the embarrassment of hearing myself speak and have added two more poetry recordings to my YouTube channel.
February 2021
My review of Susie Campbell's Tenter appears in Tears in the Fence.
December 2020
My poem Harvest appears in One Hand Clapping.
September 2020
One Piece Missing from the Edge appears in the anthology Beyond the Storm: Poems from the Covid-19 Era.
July 2020
I am proud to announce that I've faced the excruciating ordeal of recording myself reading poems. Six pieces from my new collection Ashdown are now available to listen to on YouTube. They are:
Crossing the Pale
Hindleap, along with a short introduction to the poems
Goat Cross
Gills Lap
The Lancaster Room
Hindleap, Christmas Morning 1982
Each video is illustrated by Reem Acason and Ashdown is available from Paekakariki Press.
My poem Mayfield to Ashdown, 3rd January 2019 appears in Tears in the Fence, No 71 Spring 2020, along with Paul Matthews' review of Ashdown.
Sympathetic Magic is published in Popshot: The Mystery Issue, 27, Spring 2020.