Ada King, Countess of Lovelace – AKA Proto-Computer Queen So Friday was International Women’s Day – and Sunday Mother’s Day. Hurrah for...

Sunday, 2pm at Melbourne Street Studios, Leeds. YOU SHOULD COME. IT WILL BE FUN AND MESSY. Bring: glue sticks, scissors, old newspapers...

A review! Thanks Martin – glad you enjoyed the cockroach and its epic fishing-rod antennae: they were pound shop’s finest, sewn into a...

A Whale App? But not one like the one in my poem-story, I hope. It appears I’m once again interested in all things animal (as opposed to...

Part of an excellent comic strip on cat killers from: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill – go on their website and buy their...

“Two vortices their nuptials swore…” I’ve been continuing to read Paul Matthews’ excellent book on writing, Sing Me The Creation. One of...

Galaxies or neurons? The Universe is, or is like, a Giant Brain. Or the Brain is, or is like, a Little Universe. Same diff. Last week, I...

A snow-dome iris, cracking through the screen… This spell of wintry weather reminded me of a poem I wrote and put on some Christmas cards...

The Loneliness of a (Prune-Fingered) Trawler Fisherman This morning, I read a lovely news story by Jonathan Amos about research on...

A 3M-long scrub python is preyed on by a plane. In my effort to write two new poems a week based on things I’ve seen in the news, here’s...

There he is! Yes, the slightly-less blurry one with the big red arrow pointing to it. That isn’t actually there, of course. As part of...

The Vermin Cycle eBook Cover It’s a new year, a new Mayan era (allegedly) and very much a new start. So, being as we made it through...

Here’s a poem I wrote for a Teach First poetry slam we held yesterday – mine didn’t end up being performed (although the poem which did...

Botanical Time-Teller At the end of last month, I performed the Vermin Cycle at Green Man Festival – it was a great experience, although...

I was just reminded of this lovely site, where you can enter a body of text and it creates a beautiful word cloud image… So I created my...

It's Balance Month. But I won't be doing any of this. (Have you seen 'Man On Wire'? It made my head hurt) On Saturday evening, H Ren and...

A post-apocalyptic roach, Pixar-style I’ve just finished reading Margaret Atwood’s ‘Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth’. It’s a...

I’ve been working recently back in well-known broadcasting institution – and wrote this poem based on an occurrence a week or so ago....

Just to say that part two of the Vermin Cycle, which I recorded for lovely Dave’s BCFM programme ‘A Cup of Tea and a Piece of Cake’, will...

You can see my profile page here: http://www.greenman.net/artist2011/vermin/4210 Very much looking forward to performing at Green Man,...