Suffolk Poetry
Last Friday, I was lucky enough to be guest poet at one of Suffolk Poetry Society's poetry cafes, at Browsers Bookshop in Woodbridge. Getting there took seven hours on the train from Cardiff, via London and Ipswich, but the long and contorted journey was unquestionably worth it!The audience was warm, attentive and very knowledgeable on matters poetic. Almost all of them read a poem in the first part of the evening and I enjoyed the mix of their own work and poems by a range of published writers, including Ruth Padel, that they wanted to share with the rest of the group. Lots of q

Saturday Live and Writing Lyrics
I was up in London again at the weekend for another poet-in-residence slot on Radio 4's Saturday Live. This time, the studio guest was shoe entrepreneur Harvey Jacobson so my end-of-show poem was shoe-themed! For my top-of-the-show poem in response to one of the week's news stories, I came up with a piece that blended the Kelly Report on MPs' expenses and Bonfire Night. If you missed the programme and are interested in hearing it, you can listen again here.Later in the day, I met up with my namesake, the very talented jazz vocalist and trumpeter

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