Wrestling Emily Dickinson

  I learn, from today's episode of the excellent Podcasting is Praxis podcast that Daily Mail columnist and massive creep Quentin Lett...

Poster for the Newcastle Ewan Brown Anarchist Book Fair by the Fair's 'in-house artist', which partly inspired this poem   Did y...

  In my teens I was obsessed with signs and wonders, with working out the Number of the Beast, decoding quatrains, counting Popes: establish...

What do you reckon, this year's Christmas card? It was clever of Dickens to make the man who hated Christmas rich, because it gave his w...

 YouTuber Steven Fearon interviewed me on his channel, INSIDELEFT, about my recent poem Tell Me, Physician , and much more besides. I really...

Maybe it wasn't the coldest day of the year, but the wind made it  feel that way: wind so loud he had to shout, the man sat by the Monum...

Traffic Light Banana I tend to use this blog mainly for writing essays, which means I tend to neglect the actual 'log' part of the p...