Bagel Nash, which was once the News Theatre, by Leeds Station I continue to run at a poetical-deficit, but will catch up soon (12 and 14...

A poem based on this walk will follow later, but here are some pictures for now… #photography #walking #cinema #urbanarchaeology...

A pair of washers at a washeteria Day 11’s prompt was to write a Tanka (five-line stanzas with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables) – so I’ve used the...

The battery-farming of conversation, in the form of a call centre. Day 10’s prompt was to write a poem of un-love; not a malediction, so...

Smoky big-haired replicant femme-fatale from the future! Still catching up, so here’s my Noir poem for day 9. I actually found an IMDB...

The Pies of Awareness may or may not come from Gregg’s (who feature, by the way, as a Classical Allusion in another poem of mine by a...

Not a picture of me – this was relatively clean for the Wolf Run… Taken a moment out from the meditation and practice retreat I’m on...

On my way to do a 10k run with obstacles this morning – and being energised by metaphysical poetry! Though no doubt the Power of Poetry...

Paul Jenkins’ ‘Phenomena Secret Cargo’ – but not as we saw it in the gallery…Which is right? Day 6 of NaPoWriMo – I’m still brewing a...

An Iain M. Banks Style Spaceship A curious task today: make something using the names of spaceships from Iain M. Banks sci-fi books. It...

Prompt no. 3 of NaPoWriMo was to write a sea shanty. This pleased me greatly as I’m a part of (when I can make it!) the Ocean Loiners – a...

Eliot – who never had twin daughters…Or did he? (No, he didn’t). Onward with NaPoWriMo catch-up – now at 66.66% catch-up. We’re entering...

This was the most tasteful dead dog I could find. Or maybe it’s asleep – let’s just say it’s asleep. Catching up 33% complete: here’s my...

So it’s NaPoWriMo: National Poetry Writing Month 2013! And I’ve missed the beginning by a couple of days. Drat. So I’ll be putting other...

This is part of a series of artist’s sound art interventions on Radio 4, called Open Air. I happened to hear this when it was on and...

http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/27/pesticide-bees-scent-food-neocotinoid Just after my piece about how bees see and smell –...

How lovely: a fellow science and poetry blogger (but one who writes about the science behind poetry, rather than poetry based on science)...

Falcons ‘rapidly evolved hunter skill’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21885659 I love raptors – wrote a poem last year about meeting a...

How a bee might see a flower – except, not really, because they *smell shapes* (kind of). I’m brewing a project – a series  of workshops...

A couple of stories recently linked very directly to my Vermin Cycle of poems. The first is the great news that the EU has now banned all...