Ride the Lights, 26th March
Ride the Lights On Wednesday 26th April, Paul Hurley and I will be running a creative cycling expedition from The Hepworth, Wakefield,...
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- Aug 7, 2013
- 3 min
Processing the Bogle – as Ivor Cutler
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...
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- Jul 17, 2013
- 1 min
Love The Words on ELFM
I went along to ELFM Towers yesterday for a chat with the ever-gracious Peter Spafford on his monthly extravaganza of all things wordy,...
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- Jun 7, 2013
- 1 min
Poetry by HEART flyer
26th June at the Heart Centre, Headingley – come along! #writing #poets #creativewriting #poetry #HEadingley #Leeds
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- May 31, 2013
- 1 min
LS13 Anthology and Upcoming Gigs
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...
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- May 21, 2013
- 1 min
The Bee-Spell of Shakespeare Primary School
Here is a collected list poem or “spell” from students’ work today – coming up with new collective nouns for (Latin-name) species of...
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- Apr 30, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 30: Here, Roots Are Not Joined
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)...
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- Apr 29, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 28: Painting Friends’ Palettes
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...
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- Apr 27, 2013
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 27: Tami Is Using Pinterest
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...
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- Apr 26, 2013
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 26: Stories and/or Plans and/or Ideas
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...
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- Apr 25, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 25: Picnic Ballad
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...
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- Apr 24, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 24: Dust Across the Beam
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...
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- Apr 23, 2013
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 23: A Triolet for Entropy
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...
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- Apr 21, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 21: White Violin or, Lord Raby’s Massive Silver Wine Cooler
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...
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- Apr 21, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 20: Rising Suns
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...
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- Apr 20, 2013
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 19: Dating the Deep
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...
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- Apr 18, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 18: Me or Him, Even
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...
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- Apr 17, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 17: Google Search Suggestions on the Day of Thatcher’s Funeral
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...
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- Apr 16, 2013
- 2 min
NaPoWriMo 16: Apple ’til Blackened Lager
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...
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- Apr 15, 2013
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 15: Transaction on a Spring Day – A Pantum
The OWL (Observation Wheel Leeds) at night – which is the ‘great revolving wheel’ in the poem… Today’s prompt: a Malay verse-form “of...
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