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I Want That! A small poem and audio narration about wanting more than we need
My poem I Want That! is included in the new Compassiviste anthology on overconsumption. It looks at desire in its smallest, most familiar form —…
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REBLOG: Exploring Poetry— Nigel Byng’s Brilliant Reading of My Poem
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Broken Rengay Anthology: my book cover illustration
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Twelfth Night, The Holly Man And A Jolly Good Wassail!
Twelfth Night When is twelfth night? This is something we need to know.I am often confused, because some people say that it is the night…
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#World Curlew Day 2022: 1,000 year old curlew poem and my new ones.
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What did you get for Christmas?
My two boys got Covid for Christmas In my sons’ Christmas stockings among the sweets, the champagne and the Christmas pudding lurked something unwanted. A…
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A visit to the RA Summer Exhibition 2021: Reclaiming Magic?
RA Summer Exhibition 2021 Last week I visited the Summer (I know it is winter, but hey! Nothing is normal in these covid times) Exhibition.…
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The Barbican Life Winter 2021 magazine: my lockdown wildlife photography
Barbican Life My lockdown photography In this winter’s issue of Barbican Life Magazine there is an article by Erin Summers about my wildlife photography during…
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At The Going Down Of The Sun
Robert Laurence Binyon wrote his most well known poem ‘For the Fallen’ while gazing out to sea from a cliff-top in Cornwall in 1914 just…
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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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My blog is included in Best Poetry Blogs to Read in 2026!
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The brilliant Michelle Navajas is the Poet of the Week for the W3 Poetry Prompt #109. Her theme for this week’s prompt is unrequited love.…
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A Crow: a tanka poem
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The Steam Cathedral: a free verse poem. A poem about the sounds and workings of a Victorian Pumping Engine.
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