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...

I've been relishing this book and include some of my favourite passages here, with a second selection to follow in a few days. Read from...

The excitement of 2016 for my writing largely consisted of the publication of two pamphlets: Hometown (V. Press), a collection of flash...

Frustrated by the result of the American election, as I am? Angry? Feeling impotent? Wondering about what or how to write now? Read...

Here are some favourite passages from this dense, rich collection: Had the ecstatic efficiency of its heart thumped to a stop? from "Fire...