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...

It’s NaPoWriMo! (National Poetry Writing Month) – and I’ve missed the beginning 😦 But it’s not too late: going to have a look and try to...

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...

Greetings, Something a bit different! I recently wrote some stream-of-consciousness reviews of film promos for The Leeds Debacle...

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...

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...

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

‘Arriving at The British Gas Museum, Leicester, with hopes of a huge display of pilot lights, pipes and valves’ A sign on the door: ...

I took part in the Wicked Words open mic event last night at 7 Arts in Chapel Allerton. What a splendid night – some awesome poetry about...

The science of poetry, the poetry of science I found this article by Ruth Padel a few days ago and just got around to reading it. If...