Announcement: Beta Reading Services

Summary I am delighted to announce that I am now offering my beta reading services on Fiverr. A beta reader … 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

Books: The Journals of John Cheever (carries over)TV: Celebrity Big Brother & Black MirrorTheatre: The Other Place (National Theatre at … More

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” —W. H. Auden A recent … More

“Now the babies are crying, I must take them out to tea.” —The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II “April … More

“Hanahaki disease (花吐き病 (Japanese); 하나하키병 (Korean); 花吐病 (Chinese)) is a fictional disease where the victim of unrequited or one-sided love … More

Over the last few months, there have been many tweets from various writers who seem dismayed by having to promote … More

In another life… nature hasn’t turned in on itself. In another life… our blood has conjoined beyond the froth of … More

The shadows move in their pre-dawn mirage. Birdsong haunts the lukewarm streetlight like a black comedy. This hoop is a … More

“Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.” — Allen Ginsberg I look down and see a smiling … More