Poetry Update …

For all these highs and lows, the submitting of poems is highly addictive; this last weekend of the half term break, I’ve rattled off and sent a children’s dinosaur poem on the advice of a poetry friend, sent film poems to Magma/Edinburgh University and found two promising new publications where there’s a (small) possibility of…

Quick Post … highs and lows, eh?

Busy work avoiding (pile of marking requiring AfL feedback sits expectantly at my feet). Surprised (why?) at the mood swing over a 12 hour period; skipping around like a weirdo at an unexpected acceptance by e-mail yesterday of a children’s poem I’d written for The Caterpillar Magazine, to gloom and doom and buckets full of…

The Safety Of Clouds

Out in Zoomorphic Magazine today … The Safety Of Clouds On hard wet ground, exposed like a pulsing nerve, half a yard from the comfort of grass, it writhed unsteadily to unheard music, while the connoisseur’s eye judged its girth from a bush. Rainwater marinated and near wasted after a night of passion, casting tired…

Kendal Mountain Festival 2017

Folk who know me are well aware of my passion for the challenge of the outdoors (don’t let the image of me holding a bunch of daffodils fool you; I’m a rugged mountain man at heart). Coming from the industrial plains of Goole, where as a youth I’d regularly hike from The Viking on Western…

Pontefract Postponed

Out today in Three Drops From A Cauldron’s Samhain 2017 edition …