Ekphrasis for All! (See Max Literacy update below) (No, projectification is not a word – but I just needed to finish the ‘-ification’...

A still from The Desktop Metaphor Some good newses to celebrate & projects to update! Firstly, the filmpoem by Helmie Stil of my piece...

For my Off The Record  WRITE OFF group today, we had a lovely time reading some Limericks and then having a go at writing our own…Here’s...

Yes, it’s very much like this one. In haste, this morning… Yesterday, I ran a group with some young people in which we looked at Wallace...

The skill game where you’re the doctor! A tritina, from yesterday’s prompt, and without an introduction… **NB Taken this one down as I...

“Let us get ourselves a pet…” My, it’s getting late. Which might be why day three turned out quite so peculiarly (sorry not sorry)....

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...

I’m continuing to write in response to moving image resources online… This week, I noticed that there’s a whole array of computer games...

I thought I’d set myself a challenge of writing every week from a public domain bit of film footage, to give my blog a ‘thing’ (yes, ‘a...

Having had an enquiry about it, I thought it might be useful to post this diagram which explains the Arts Award and what it means in the...

Our Poetry School Microcommission, Chainmail (for Nicky Morgan) is now in a wonderful PDF flicky book on their website – you can read it...

Travelling uphill, my  gears crunch. We forget how yesterday felt. The dog licks my hand, empathic, going from second to nothing,...

Shaun’s response to a government report on Innovation… There’s a quick update on The Poetry School Microcommission project, ‘Chainmail’,...

We got one of the Lo! and Behold Microcommissions from The Poetry School! Mine was one of five projects fortunate enough to receive a...

This is the first of what I hope will be a series of blog posts to do with my post-grad course in Creative Writing for Therapeutic...

New Life (created during a videopoetry workshop at Liberated Words 2014) from Marc Neys (aka Swoon) on Vimeo. On Saturday, I joined a...

Rant away, sir! Here’s something inspired by the end of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and an encounter with another boater. An admission:...

Thank goodness for those extra CRT lights… Having arrived at Standedge Tunnel on Tuesday night, we were thwarted in getting through on...

Huddersfield Narrow Canal Lock 4E (image from geograph.org.uk) A bit of catch-up from the journey and its poems so far. Here’s a poem...

Our route from North to West For the next month, we are on the move aboard Reenie again headed back towards Bristol…Where I am starting a...