Wrestling Emily Dickinson

I've began thinking about something I haven't done in quite a while, and that's taking a holiday. Going off somewhere for a coup...

Kind of low on spoons at the moment, so probably won't be writing any long blog posts for a while. I will be performing one of my rece...

Yesterday was an interesting, and perhaps a little dispiriting, day, politically. We had the decision from a high court judge to ban BA stri...

I was for a couple of years a very good fan of the moderate left-wing historian Tony Judt . His collection of essays, Reappraisals, came alo...

I've given it a good hour and the rage has yet to subside. They did it. The Lib Dems have sold out to the Tories, and now we have to loo...

A while ago, I was toying with doing a poetry 'zine called Diseases of Staggering Beauty. I'd gotten tired of a poetry scene that se...

To paraphrase Neil Kinnock , if the Tories are elected, I warn you not to be gay, not to be lesbian, bi, or a trans person. I warn you not t...