Friday, December 14, 2012 at 11:01AM I’m currently putting together a package of the poems I’ve written in the past year or so for submission. Here I have a go at working out why the task is so daunting and also, somewhat paradoxically, why writing poetry is still pretty much the best thing you can do without breaking the law or your hips.
Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 05:01PM In this post, I write a thousand or so words explaining a poem which is about thirty words long with no punctuation except for a single, solitary full stop. Clearly following the maxim that less is more, I left everything out of the poem, and then ruined it by putting it all back into the essay. Ezra Pound (who spent years reducing his 'In a Station of the Metro' to fourteen words) would be SPITTING. Anyway, this is the third in my twelve blogs of Christmas. I'll be doing one a day till the 22nd, and then I'll bow out. Hope you enjoy this one.
Monday, November 12, 2012 at 02:36PM 
This is, I am reliably informed, a true story. But you wouldn't think so. Indeed, you wouldn't expect anything so wholly preposterous to happen outside a comedy sketch or a joke told down the pub. That made me wonder how our hearts can lead us down such strange paths, to such sad ends.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 10:45AM 
Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror RoomHere's a new poem I wrote last night. It's a bit soppy, I know, but I thought I would put it up because it's less fussy than the stuff I normally write and because it did what I wanted first time around - a rare thing. Hope you like it, or, if you don't, it doesn't make you spew up in your lap.
Writing Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 09:55PM 
Here’s a piece about why writers hold their breath or something. I don’t know what it’s about, to be honest, as I was on laudanum when I wrote it. I swear I saw Xanadu, and fricking Olivia Newton-John was there in her roller skates. It was absolutely wicked.
