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 pairs on the Farne Islands! If you're in the area at that time of year and love wildlife, I highly recommend taking the trip.
While the busyness of the autumn term, alongside teaching my online Reading to Write Prose Poetry course, means that I'm not doing a lot of events in the next few months (I'm also gearing up for the l
I've been writing and publishing short stories as long as I've been writing and publishing poems--that is, since I was a teenager. In the 80s, I largely wrote stories (hopefully now lost) for a Midwes