Summary I am delighted to announce that I am now offering my beta reading services on Fiverr. A beta reader … More
Category: Poetry
Poetry Postmortem #11: Three Women by Sylvia Plath
‘I am a garden of black and red agonies.’ In a maternity ward, three women contemplate their lives, the brutality … More
Play Excerpt: The Change by Courtenay Schembri Gray
“I’ll lie here when I’m a ghost and smoke ghost cigarettes and watch ye earthlin’s goin’ about yeer pointless days.”-Marina … More
April ’25: Hair Moss and Partridgeberry
Books: The Journals of John Cheever (carries over)TV: Celebrity Big Brother & Black MirrorTheatre: The Other Place (National Theatre at … More
March ’25: Can You Smell The Cigars?
Books: Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes and Christopher Reid & Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year’s Turning by … More
The Ambition Bird: Fiona Larkin and The Poetry Society
Author’s Note: If you’d like to support my work but cannot afford to donate, you can make a one off payment … More
Violette Leduc’s ‘The Lady and the Little Fox Fur & the Art of Distance
“I think that I shall never knowWhy I am thus, and I am so.”—A Fairly Sad Tale, Dorothy Parker ⧫ … More
Poetry Drafting: the Poet as Gardener
I was once a firm believer in the philosophy: first thought, best thought. This is the belief in the purity … More
Grasshopper
Author’s Note: This poem was originally written on the 27th of March, 2023 and eventually published by Roi Faineant on the 4th of … More
Third-Place Winner: Where Flowers Give Birth to Snow
Author’s Note: I am delighted to announce that I came third place in London Writer’s Salon Hour Contest on the … More
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