I’ve just finished facilitating four sessions, working with Wyldwood Arts  – a group of 18-25 year olds from the Bristol Old Vic young...

“a transitory and changing constellation of percepts, hunger and muscular flexing” – a quote about the swallow, from Andrew Jeffrey‘s...

Here’s a short film made by me, about the excellent Growing Bolder project – funded by Bristol Ageing Better – and the performance we did...

Last week in my group with Off The Record, we looked at Andrew McMillan’s poem ‘TODAY’ from his great collection Physical (which you...

One of the goaty references in my goaty piece… I put a piece of writing into the View from the Pen event at Windmill Hill City Farm –...

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...

The Wild Beast Show (1932) by Edward Seago Having just been up to the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, I’ve written a couple of...

It appears I’m writing more that I might submit elsewhere this year – which makes for a less interesting blog, but a more hopeful...

If you’d like an actual, not silly, article about this subject, go here. Inspired by a rum-punch hangover conversation: SCRIPT FOR A VERY...

So then: I’m making the decision to only title this here and post it to private groups on Facebook. Because it might be one that gets...

I like the idea of a ‘Portfolio Career’: something dainty, portable and dynamic… Less this… At the moment, though, I’m coining the term...

NEWS: I’ll be piloting a creative writing group for young people in partnership with Off The Record Bristol – starting on Tuesday 3rd...

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...

A quick shout to anyone in Bristol, to come along to ‘Words in Motion’ on Wednesday at The Arts House, Stoke’s Croft, as part of the...

Folly Footbridge – as mentioned in my ‘aubade’ (morning poem). Image googled, from www.kennet-avon-canal.co.uk NaPoWriMo catch-up…and...

A Plank In Reason? Playing catch-up today (when I should be doing other things, of course), with my Emily Dickinson-inspired poem. Here...

One of the scenes I remember from the day in 1997 when Diana’s death was reported. Didn’t fancy the love/un-love prompt today, so had a...

Stones at Barry Island Beach At a beach today, on the birthday of a friend no longer with us – so the stars/constellations prompt was...

Whichever way up you look at it (thanks to wordsmith.org for this lovely bit of black and white Ambiguity). Out of very little, quite...

This slideshow requires JavaScript. This morning, I walked to Dundas Aqueduct and noticed – as I walked down and under the structure –...