Welcome to 2018. (Yes I know it’s been underway a while. I was giving it all time to make sure it was actually the new year happening, and not just 2017 in a loop.) As you will notice, the website has had a bit of a refurb. Hopefully you like what you see. A change …
Signing off for 2017
Another year, another set of domestic disasters, rejections, frustrations, minor triumphs and bursts of silliness. Oh, and some poetry too. It all began really well, with winning the January Rattle Ekphrastic competition. I still like the poem too, which is good. (And not always the way these things unpack). But then I failed completely to …
What I’ll Be Doing This Summer – Raising the Roof results
Many thanks to all those who took part in the polls about what sorts of things you’d like me to teach over summer. I’ve learned a couple of things, which I will share with you, oh gentle readers. Don’t ever ask a question without being fully ok with recieving every one of the possible answers. …
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A(nother) Difficult Day
Just back from handing over the manuscript of time to sing beofre the dark to Bruce Bascand and his sister Robyn. I’ve written and erased dozens of paragraphs that follow on from that simple statement. Stupid. Let’s just go with the observation that I didn’t handle it as well as I would have liked, and I’m …
Raising (money for) the Roof Summer Poetry workshops
As the year turns inexorably towards the languid months of late Spring and Summer, I have some good news, some bad news, and some very good news. All depending on how you feel about the prospect of coming to a poetry workshop! The bad news is that I have to reroof my house. The good …
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A Dark Feathered Art 