I know, this is a tragic thing to be blogging about, but The Summer King is now available with 24 hour delivery on on Fishpond! Woohoo! (I've just spent two hours on a pheresis machine donating platelets. You expect witty repartee as well?!)
Trouble buying The Summer King
A couple of people have asked me what's going on with the listing of The Summer King on Fishpond and The Book Depository (UK), as it's currently listed as “Unavailable” in both places. Apparently Fishpond are waiting for some paperwork or other from OUP before it can be listed as “in stock”. My publisher has …
Spring refurb
I've continued the Spring Sprucing-up of the site. Hurray! There is now a Media page which collects links to various recent interviews, and a new group of five poems for your pleasure. And I'm planning a couple of poetry workshops to run over summer … Enjoy.
Poems that make your world (part 2)
Hope you all had a good weekend, and took the opportunity to think about favourite poems. When it came to writing them down, I found it quite hard to limit myself to just the five. I haven't tried to give anything terribly intellectual in the way of explanation for my choices either. John Donne, A …
Book Sale alert!
Bibliophiles of Christchurch, this announcement is for you! Yes, it's that time of year again, when Scorpio Books have their annual sale. I think it actually began yesterday (bah), and will be continuing today and tomorrow. And once again they have a selection of books that are FREE with other purchase (including sales books). There's …
A Dark Feathered Art 