NEWS: I’ll be piloting a creative writing group for young people in partnership with Off The Record Bristol – starting on Tuesday 3rd...

Having had an enquiry about it, I thought it might be useful to post this diagram which explains the Arts Award and what it means in the...

Here’s the latest update from The Poetry School about the Lo! and Behold Microcommission Fund, for which I’ve been running an email...

Folly Footbridge – as mentioned in my ‘aubade’ (morning poem). Image googled, from www.kennet-avon-canal.co.uk NaPoWriMo catch-up…and...

Shaun’s response to a government report on Innovation… There’s a quick update on The Poetry School Microcommission project, ‘Chainmail’,...

A Plank In Reason? Playing catch-up today (when I should be doing other things, of course), with my Emily Dickinson-inspired poem. Here...

One of the scenes I remember from the day in 1997 when Diana’s death was reported. Didn’t fancy the love/un-love prompt today, so had a...

My Fellow Ministers? Day three’s poem, which I didn’t get around to yesterday…I’ve had a go at a sort of mixed-metaphor vaguely-political...

Stones at Barry Island Beach At a beach today, on the birthday of a friend no longer with us – so the stars/constellations prompt was...

“Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a Cormorant; yet not true life Thereby...

We got one of the Lo! and Behold Microcommissions from The Poetry School! Mine was one of five projects fortunate enough to receive a...

As I’ve been thinking about Form a lot recently for my post-grad studies, I thought I’d ‘outsource inspiration’ to see where it could...

This is the first of what I hope will be a series of blog posts to do with my post-grad course in Creative Writing for Therapeutic...

Here’s a short piece I wrote about my experience at the first Bristol Death Cafe. The next event is at Cox and Baloney on Sunday 29th...

New Life (created during a videopoetry workshop at Liberated Words 2014) from Marc Neys (aka Swoon) on Vimeo. On Saturday, I joined a...

lizard fish bird mammal shrimp brain innit Here’s something for the last day which – (YES I CHEATED but I had nothin’ left for April, ya...

Twisty Tim Burton Trees… Yes, I know I’m nearly a week late – but I really haven’t had the chance up to know to be a Completist and put...

The Sloth: A Big Deal (for real) Here’s my news story-based poem (using pretty much just words from the article itself). The story was...

“The shelves around his office are full of shiny awards, shrivelled words. “ Number twenty-seven and off-prompt. Something inspired by a...

Like a satellite, all I can see of him is a distant silver spin – Here’s an attempt / variation on a curtal sonnet, based on an overheard...