In my last update, I shared links to a video of the poetry reading that I gave in April. It went really well, and I was asked to perform again at the beginning of June. This time the event was an all-day festival called Wirral MakeFest. The theme of the event was sustainability. Long story … Read more
In the last few blog posts and newsletters I mentioned a Poetry Reading at Start-Yard in Birkenhead. The Poetry Reading took place last week. I had set myself some basic goals or aspirations for this event. I’ve learnt over the years that setting really ambitious goals is unhelpful. It sets me up to be disappointed. … Read more
It’s just one week now until the poetry reading at Start-Yard in Birkenhead. This beautiful venue is located in an old shed / warehouse which used to be a part of Cammell Laird Shipyard. It’s an evocative place to host an evening of Poetry and Singer / Songwriter. At the first of these events back … Read more
The poetry collection ‘alice reimagined‘ is now complete and due to be published next week. I was looking for a good date for publication and thought my birthday was as good as any, so it will be released on Wednesday 27th March. You can order it then from either Amazon or direct from this site. … Read more
To take hold and pick the moment,To wait as though it was the first moment before an exam,To hold the breath and never let it go. Even in those moments of panic, when the smog clearsAnd we see this pandemic for what it is, a reset,A discharge of all the poison from the world. It’s … Read more
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
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
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
A couple of weeks ago I published my second book of the year. It is called “Blue: Experiments in Sound”. The first book, “Values Count“, is a non-fiction book about values based working. It is available on this website as well as through Amazon. Sales in the first few months have been steady – it … Read more
A poem from the collection “It Begins Like This” (2014) I remember that tree, struck by lightning before I climbed it. The absolute shock of the bark, bitten by electricity And the beat of wing as it caught the night air along the river bank, Nocturnal bird seeking partner as the seasons … Read more