New Year, New Wings
2019, when I had – in a very real sense – wings. A belated and brief round-up of last year (I know – it’s nearly February, but midwinter...
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Oct 7, 20193 min
Swindon, Aldeburgh, Resources
Surreal objets, masks, The Tent Palace of the Delicious Air, Roy McFarlane performing, and the Poets’ Umbrellas. Just back from the Big...
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Jun 11, 20193 min
Dissertation, Publication, Projectification
Ekphrasis for All! (See Max Literacy update below) (No, projectification is not a word – but I just needed to finish the ‘-ification’...
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Nov 7, 20182 min
Poembergs
The Tower of Maps and Thread (there’s a title) A few hurrahs: firstly, my poem ‘How to Preserve a Fatberg’ is up today on The Poetry Shed...
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Jun 7, 20182 min
Weimar Win & More
A still from The Desktop Metaphor Some good newses to celebrate & projects to update! Firstly, the filmpoem by Helmie Stil of my piece...
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Oct 14, 20172 min
Winchester Poetry Prize – Winner!
**UPDATED** My poem is the winners’ anthology title! I was double-thrilled & beyond delighted to find out that my poem, Somewhere To Keep...
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Jun 2, 20171 min
Poetry Please & Filmpoem
Two Good Things: My National Poetry Competition second prize winner, ‘The Desktop Metaphor’ was featured on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Poetry Please’...
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Apr 6, 20172 min
National Poetry Competition 2nd Prize!
or, Putting on Your Proper Poet Hat It’s with huge delight I can now celebrate that I was awarded second prize in The Poetry Society’s...
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Mar 18, 20171 min
Bony Orbit – Videopoem
A videopoem I made, based on some 1940s footage of How The Eye Functions, is now up on Atticus Review here, and embedded directly from...
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Jan 30, 20172 min
Rialto Pamphlet Competition – Shorlisted!
Some exciting news: I’ve been shortlisted in The Rialto pamphlet competition 2017! It’s their first pamphlet competition and a really...
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Jun 2, 20161 min
Visual Verse: Pachycephalosaurus
I’m one of the featured writers this month, on the excellent Visual Verse… You can read my curious poem here – and then submit your own...
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May 23, 20161 min
Ware Poets Competition Commendation
A little ‘hooray for me’ post: I have been commended in the Ware Poets Open Competition 2016, for my poem The Thereminist Hails a Bus....
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Feb 19, 20161 min
Hands
A poem of mine, ‘Hands’,  has just gone up on Folia Magazine online – you can read it here. The poem came out of a workshop a couple of...
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Aug 12, 20151 min
‘Chainmail’ Poetry School Project – Pamphlet Goes Live!
Our Poetry School Microcommission, Chainmail (for Nicky Morgan) is now in a wonderful PDF flicky book on their website – you can read it...
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Apr 8, 20151 min
Poetry School Microcommission: First Report
Shaun’s response to a government report on Innovation… There’s a quick update on The Poetry School Microcommission project, ‘Chainmail’,...
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Oct 15, 20141 min
Eyedrum Periodically: Backwards
Two of my poems – as well as an array of splendid work – are in this edition of Eyedrum Periodically, on the theme of ‘Backwards’. Of my...
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Oct 6, 20141 min
Joy’s Kitchen
A poem of mine, in honour of my late Granny Joy’s compulsion to collect, has been published by The Moon Magazine, here. #collections...
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May 31, 20131 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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Apr 6, 20132 min
NaPoWriMo 5: Unprompted Art 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...
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Apr 4, 20131 min
NaPoWriMo 4: Breath or, Inspiration / Exhalation
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...
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