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Some Days I Drink My Coffee by the Grave of William Blake by The The (plus a Sijo)
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The Black Dog: Narrative poem (& music audio)
Lost on the moor. Fog thick as fear. A man alone… someone—or something—is following him. #TheBlackDog #SpokenWordPoetry #GothicVerse #DarkAmbient #PoetryOfFear #MistyMoor #ModernFolklore #PoeticSuspense #StorytellingInVerse #Halloween
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Did You Do That? Original Art versus AI
In a world of pixels and provenance, how do we prove the hand behind the art? ‘Did AI Do That?’ explores the shifting ground between…
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A Light Touch: A Three-person Rengay
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An Ordinary Man: Triolet Poem (& music audios)
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The Black Cap: Versiprose or Prosiverse (& music audio)
The Black Cap A Versiprose tale of guilt, grief, and shifting blame—where rhyme meets reckoning in the courtroom’s hush. Fred stands accused. Sid squirms in…
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news and events
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Melissa Lemay interviews me on Collaborature!
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“One memorable time was when the producer called a breakfast meeting at a street café in Fulham. At the cusp of a wintry dawn, we found ourselves waiting for the first bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau to arrive. We cracked it open at 8 am, and I remember it as one of the best collaborative meetings ever!”
working as a cartoonist for Channel 4 TV
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✨ Honoured to illustrate the book cover of Broken Rengay
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The book features a rebellious take on the traditional rengay form—thirty six poems that bend the rules with humour, raw emotion, and poetic synergy.
Published by Prolific Pulse Press
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Something’s coming! Wait and see!
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Latest
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Moonlit nonsense with Andy, chocolates, and scratchy sand — a love story. #Limerick #NonsenseVerse #WhimsicalPoetry #IllustratedVerse #Rhyme
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My new poem‑song Three Likes dives into the comedy and ache of online validation—how a handful of clicks can feel both trivial and monumental. A…
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The poem “Rabbit Don’t Rhyme” by Lesley Scoble humorously explores the challenges of writing funny rhymes. The narrator, confused about rhyme schemes, considers various options…

