Wrestling Emily Dickinson

When you choose to advocate for a particular cause, there are certain things, certain issues, certain tropes, that you find yourself having ...

Readers of this blog may recall me hinting in the last blog, announcing the imminent publication of By Grand Central Station We Sat Down and...

Just popping by swiftly to inform you all that I have heard from poet and publisher Kevin Cadwallender that his forthcoming anthology of po...

It snuck up on me this morning that it's over a year since my wife and I split up. It then occurred to me that it's been even longer...

Lazy day today, mainly spent watching old episodes of Babylon 5 with a friend. FX seem to be running the series on permanent loop, which ca...

First things first. Check out the magnificent Laurie Penny's newest blog over at the equally magisterial New Statesman website. Next,...

And so to the Trent House , Newcastle, for my second appearance at Jibba Jabba, that bar's new spoken word night. Jibba Jabba is shaping...