Ride the Lights On Wednesday 26th April, Paul Hurley and I will be running a creative cycling expedition from The Hepworth, Wakefield,...

Ivor Cutler, January 15, 1923 – March 3, 2006. For a while now I’ve wanted to write and perform something as – channelling, or in tribute...

I went along to ELFM Towers yesterday for a chat with the ever-gracious Peter Spafford on his monthly extravaganza of all things wordy,...

26th June at the Heart Centre, Headingley – come along! #writing #poets #creativewriting #poetry #HEadingley #Leeds

A quick update also that – GOOD NEWS – I’m going to be one of the poets featured in the LS13 Leeds Writers anthology, about which more...

Here is a collected list poem or “spell” from students’ work today – coming up with new collective nouns for (Latin-name) species of...

You fear, you fear her return. IT IS THE END OF NAPOWRIMO. And it really has been marvellous. I’ve just one poem (apart from that below)...

A lovely iridescent bubble Yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write about a colour. So – as it’s nearing the end of the month and I (as...

All that glitters is not what’s good for the goose. Feeling experimental today! I have been out running a workshop earlier, so just used...

This became the nickname for my Mum, so my step-dad made her an actual Mothership logo – AWESOIME. Here’s my Day 26 offering, from Jo...

Here is your hamper… …have a lovely time Sometimes, you’ve just got to let it all out. But, so a long-standing motto of mine goes: Make...

Hyde Park Picture House: 100 in 2014! As you may have noticed, things have been a bit cinematic on my blog during NaPoWriMo. I’m reading...

The Universe loves things to get more disordered. (So most of us fit right in – We Are Stardust!) I’m running on a slightly altered...

Lord Raby’s Massive Silver Wine Cooler – as so described on the signs in Temple Newsam House! Filling in an earlier gap from NaPoWriMo: I...

Piss-en-lit! Taraxacum! Yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to use a prescribed list of words and include 5 or more in a poem. Jo Bell’s...

COLOSSUS SEEKS KRAKEN Yesterday’s prompt was to write a poem in the form of a personal ad (from NaPoWriMo) or to write about a particular...

Even? A really quick one today, from both Jo Bell’s prompt (write about something you feel guilty for) and the NaPoWriMo prompt, to start...

Indeed she is not. At least we all have death in common though, eh? Off-prompt today, but will be writing a Blessing (after Jo Bell’s...

Look! Blackened Lager is an actual thing! This was really good fun: the prompt today was to find a poem in a language other than English...

The OWL (Observation Wheel Leeds) at night – which is the ‘great revolving wheel’ in the poem… Today’s prompt: a Malay verse-form “of...