This is a poem from the collection I am writing at the moment – called “alice reimagined”, a series of conversations with the anima. I despair of Alice sometimes especially when she is out and I have no-one to talk to or she is in and I have no-one to talk … Read more
It’s over a year since “Values Count” was published. In that time, I have had the experience of sitting with a few of the readers telling me what they found useful in the book. One of them had written all over the book (thanks Jayne!) and apologised for the mess she had made of it. … Read more
I am in the middle of a writing marathon again. This time I decided not to blog about it, because – well, hey I’ve done that twice already over the last couple of years. So, in lieu of a string of posts, here is a short one mid-way through to describe briefly what is happening … Read more
In the last blog post I spoke about the need to build a habit of writing 500 words a day. The plan was to see if this would help with regular writing and move forward the manuscripts I am working on. The process has been thought-provoking so I thought I should share some of it … Read more
I’m a clear example of the evidence to show why we need to focus. In recent months I have mentioned several books that I am working on. The three that edge to the top of the list (there are 20 ideas in total!) are: alice reimagined – a book of poems, prose pieces, biographical sketches … Read more
I have a few different manuscripts on the go at the same time. I’ve written here about the book “The Journey to Wonder” which is half finished. This book is all about the people who have inspired my thinking and how they came to influence me. It’s a fun book to write as I write … Read more
Imagine the scenario, you’ve seen that I have published a book “Values Count”. You realised that it came out back in February of this year. You would love to read it – but you don’t want to buy it in paperback. Either you live outside the UK or you just love reading books in digital … Read more
Back in 2004 I wrote a booklet of poems called “the alice conversations“. 13 poems in a short booklet, it was a set of dialogues and conversations with Alice. When I first began working with Carl Jung’s theories of archetypes and active imagination, I developed a set of characters that would reappear frequently in my … Read more
For the past few months I have been writing the first draft of my next book. It’s called “The Journey to Wonder”. It’s about the people who have been a huge influence on my life, on how I think, how I work and what I produce. Here is the chapter about Neil Young: The wild … Read more
I want to write about experiments in poetry and poetic form. This isn’t going to be a comprehensive history of experimentation in poetic form. That would be a very long blog post, maybe a book – and not one that I want to write (just yet anyway!) Instead, this is a personal story about being … Read more