The Pie Tester

Very pleased to say that my poem The Pie Tester was highly commended by Carole Bromley in the YorkMix Children’s Poetry Competition. Congratulations to joint winners Elizabeth Sanders and Sarah Ziman who share the honour of first prize. Here for your perusal is my poem … hope you like it 🙂 I am the man…

To Infinity … KPF 2021 Zooms into the Future

Kendal Poetry Festival 2021 … Poetry For Everyone: a review So I was organising my hot chocolate, arranging with the family my sole and undisputed access to our comfiest armchair, practising my skills on Zoom and looking through the programme on the Kendal Poetry Festival website, when an e-mail pinged into the virtual letterbox from…

Poems from the Fridge …

Here are some of the fun poems ordered, written and performed during the Contains Strong Language Festival at Tullie House in Carlisle last year (Poet in a Fridge 2020) …