Between the lines and through the lens…
This week I am honoured to be the Spotlight poet on the brilliant Poets’ Directory, created by Colin Bancroft, also the creator 192 Magazine and the brilliant Kickstarter funded Nine Pens whose first poetry collections are about to be launched into the world very soon. Colin is also the author of the poetry collection Impermanence […]
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Come Imbolc / we’ve left the gate on the latch / waiting Come Imbolc / turn us over and all else / outWe’ve left out straw to ignite ashes into actionInto obliteration / cleanse this dust / this despair Come Imbolc / empty us / our bellies lie openEager to be burped / belched / […]
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This weekend on the poetry podcast Eat the Storms, on Spotify, Anchor, Apple. Google, Podbean, Pocketcasts, Breaker and many more platforms we are celebrating Poetry In Ireland and what better way to get prepared than by baking up some Irish Soda Bread. This weekend’s guests will be Kathy D’Arcy, Cathy Carson, Luke Morgan, Linda McKenna, […]
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At Home with the Hoglets Beginning with A Restricted View from Under the Hedge to Sticklebacks and on to The Cult of the Spiny Hog, along with a classic collection of inspirational writers, Mark Davidson and his poets are turning hoglets into must-have bookshelf desirables. Over a series of interviews with the poets and Mark […]
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At Home with the Hoglets Beginning with A Restricted View from Under the Hedge to Sticklebacks and on to The Cult of the Spiny Hog, along with a classic collection of inspirational writers, Mark Davidson and his poets are turning hoglets into must-have bookshelf desirables. Over a series of interviews I will ask the same […]
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On Saturday 13th February 2021 we celebrate all sides of LOVE on Eat the Storms the Poetry Podcast with a host of poetic stars. New episode drops from 5pm on Spotify, Apple, Google, Podbean, PocketCasts & most podcast platforms. Join us to make this Valentines Bloody Poetic… ❤️
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Flight of the Dragonfly Spoken Word is back for its first online event of 2021 on the 16th February at 19.30 GMT and I get to be their lucky first guest. There will be, as usual, a feast of poets reading at the open mic, lead by event organisers and fellow poets Barbara Mercer and […]
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Absolutely thrilled to have a short fictional story in the latest issue of the impeccable Prismatica Magazine and to be in such glorious company and not to mention the incredible cover artwork by Dylan Mooney. My story is called A Funny Kind of Faire Tale. You can read it via the link below and even […]
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Tomorrow we are back withSeason 2, Episode 3…
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On the 8th of January I was the lucky guest of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival live on Zoom with the astounding Catrice Greer and a gorgeous group of poets reading that the Open Mic. Below is the recording of my set, a 25 minute tour of the first 45 years of my life, poetically, with […]
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