A Wilder Vein is Published!
Yesterday was the official publication date of A Wilder Vein (Two Ravens Press), an anthology that I'm absolutely thrilled to be part of.Edited by Linda Cracknell and with a foreword by Ro

Oxjam Cardiff
Friend, photographer and fellow blogger, Rhys Jones, has been kind enough to send me through some photos from my recent Oxjam Cardiff ecopoetry gig. In most of the photos, I'm looking pink-cheeked and overheated (the venue,

Fiona Robyn's Blogsplash
Novelist and poet Fiona Robyn (whom I interviewed here about six months ago) is going to blog her next novel, Thaw, starting on the

Desert Island Writings
Friday evening's poetry reading at Circles Bookshop in Bristol was hugely enjoyable. The venue was very much my kind of place - cosy, intimate, brimming with second-hand books and with a little café-bar area. I did about forty minutes of performance, then after the interval, the event organiser

Between the Lines
Should anyone happen to be in Bristol tomorrow evening, and feeling in need of a bit of poetry plus some poetry-inspired chat, I'm going to be the guest at Between the Lines at Circles Bookshop in Bedminster.Between the Lines is a poetry reading with a difference, as once I've done my performance stuff in the first half of the evening, there'll be an interview section, hosted by poet and event organiser Trevor Carter. I've been asked to select five 'Desert Island' poems or other pieces of writing (how to whittle so many favourites down to just five?) and chat about my inspirations and motivations.