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...

I found him. I found my son, and he's not like anyone I conceived of in Imagined Sons. He's a smart, playful translator in Japan, and I'm...

Here are some of my favourite passages from this impressive debut collection by Scottish poet Em Strang: The sunlight is squeezing her,...

This summer The Guardian commissioned me to compose a review of the five books comprising the shortlist for the Felix Dennis Prize for...

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My father's birthday is on the 26th, and the day always reprises memories of both his life and death, 13 March 2009. I flew home to make...

I thought as an occasional series I'd post links to previously published online poems. Today it's a poem from one of my favourite...

Until last year, I rarely wrote a poem over a page long. Now, my current manuscript, The Weather in Normal, has four poems of 3+ pages,...

Almost as long as potter Trevor Lillistone has been my partner, people have asked us whether we've collaborated. That answer was no until...

Looking down the park, Bath in the background.... The lovely covered stone bridge, a mother duck and her nine ducklings on the right bank...

Jude Higgins, who runs the Bath Flash Fiction Award, interviewed me about flash fiction and prose poetry; the review can be read on the...

While visiting Edinburgh, I recorded a podcast for the Scottish Poetry Library with the wonderfully appreciative and enthusiastic...

Santino Prinzi, I should explain, was a student in my Sudden Prose module at Bath Spa University two years ago and won that year's...

Trev and I took a wonderful boat trip out to Staple Island during breeding season (May to July) and were told there were 37,000 breeding...

I've read and admired Reality Street books for years and became a "supporter subscriber" some years ago, receiving each year's round of...

When I knew I'd be coming to Northumberland for a couple weeks this summer, I contacted Rob A. Mackenzie to ask about possible reading...

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