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  • Sober-ish October

    I am attempting the “sober in October” regime. It’s day 5 today. It’s remarkably easy to swap a late night drink to a hot milk or hot chocolate. I’ve slept […]

     

  • National Poetry Day ll

    On National Poetry Day, 4th October, I met with some fellow poets from Dwell Time. We met on the train to Huddersfield on the Penistone line, (auto-corrected, incorrectly, to “penis tone”) […]

     

  • National Poetry Day

    Today is National Poetry Day. I will be travelling on the poetry train between Sheffield and Huddersfield, reading and listening to poetry. As a bonus, this rail line also takes […]

     

  • Lyrics

    I love to hear the words in songs. It’s just a snapshot of emotion captured and put to music, and it can’t (usually) travel far. Perhaps in opera it can […]

     

  • Book Two

    It’s two years since the publication of my book In Search of Sympathy or a Cure. I have written more poetry, been more creative and generally been more focussed on […]