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REBLOG: Exploring Poetry— Nigel Byng’s Brilliant Reading of My Poem
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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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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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Remember, Remember The Fifth Of November!
Bonfire Night Bonfire night is when we celebrate and remember, remember the failure of Guy Fawkes to blow up Parliament in 1605! (Anybody want to…
Hey, I’m delighted to see you here! Thanks for coming. My blog is where I publish my poems and artworks (and reveal anything else that I think might be interesting!). I am so happy you’ve dropped by—please enjoy!
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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!”
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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.
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Step Lightly and Lightly Step: a palindrome poem
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That Peace of Me: a tapestry poem
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Thank you, Melissa, for your wonderful cento poem, A Tapestry of Belonging, compiled from a collection of 18 poets’ first lines. I thank you for…


