I'm surprised and delighted my chapbook, Scar, which came out a year ago this month, is still going strong, with a new review in Poetry...

My partner of seven years, Trevor Lillistone, and I married at the Bath Register Office on Saturday, 10 June. It was followed by a...

Jo Hastie has composed a thorough and appreciative review of Scar now up on the DURA website here. I was especially glad to see Hastie...

I tend to devote these posts of favourite passages from contemporary poetry collections to poets I suppose underknown--which is to say...

Roughly a year from now Seren Books will publish my fourth collection of poems, The Weather in Normal. Each of my books has been quite...

I'm delighted to say I managed over 30 poems in 30 days. Those are drafts, not finished poems, of course, but it's felt good to focus...

In the month I stayed in my childhood home following my mother's death, going through thousands of unorganised papers, largely looking...

Today my birthfather invited my partner and I to visit him in South Carolina when we have our second wedding reception in Illinois in...

It's 10:54 p.m. on the ninth day of drafting at least a poem a day, and I've just finished a draft of a short poem juxtaposing the...

I think the reason I enjoy judging poetry competitions and reviewing contemporary poetry collections is the same: to celebrate quality...

One of the unexpected trials of living in the UK has been that it presents me with an extra mothers' day to endure: they have one in...

As spring break falls entirely within April this year, I thought I would try writing a poem a day for National Poetry Month (in the US,...

After years of attending AWP (the Associated Writing Programs' annual conference--Brits, imagine 11,000 writers in one U.S. city for...

Some favourite passages from this lush first collection: I kneel beside priests burning camphor upon the ghats, brace this eldest son for...

Helena Nelson has reviewed Scar for Sphinx here (and I'm ecstatic).... #HelenaNelson #Sphinx #chapbook #Scar #ShearsmanBooks

Katy Lewis Hood, a postgraduate student interested in women's contemporary poetry and the anthropocene (as I learned from her blog),...

On 3 January, I received an email from my university unexpectedly increasing my workload significantly for second semester. I still hoped...

In a round-up of six chapbooks in the latest PN Review, Alison Brackenbury gives Scar an absolutely superlative review, and I'm thrilled....

It seems that much of my life as a poet has involved waiting. First it's waiting for responses to submissions to magazines (and many US...

More favourite passages: As clouds swell to damply fill gaps in mountains, so in Illness we sense, solidly, our entrails expanding to...