Marsden Jazz Festival Poster Poems

Just found out that a couple of my poems have been chosen to feature on posters during the 2017 Marsden Jazz Festival. “The quest was to find music-related poems that will be posted in shops, pubs café and other sites in Marsden in the run-up to the Marsden Jazz Festival early next month. The competition, organised by Marsden the…

Bleak …

Nine months in and I’m having a quick review of the first year I’ve concentrated on writing less frivolous poetry. Well, the bleak word was used again the other day (quite fairly) and this was concerning a poem which I had high hopes would develop into a more uplifting effort compared to some of the…

Invitation To Move On

I am small in the sea, pushed around by waves that care not for any grain of sand or stuff that floats in old men’s heads. Arms held wide and high, that reach and cling like a child to a parent when things get rough, when routines fail and muscles waste. I hesitate, recoil, cower;…

A Quick Update Sunday 10th September

Well it’s been an eventful morning after a broken night. Three e-mails confirming the acceptance of different poem submissions in different publications and then a wild hour at Abbot Hall listening to Mark Pajak and Kate Fox in the Lakes Alive Wild Word Tent in the driving rain. It’s now 1 pm and I am…