Rogue Strands

I'm the Guest Poetry Editor for the October issue of The Madrid Review. Subs are open from now till 28/8, and I'd be delighted to re...

I have a poem forthcoming in Ecoshock, an anthology of ecopoetry that's due to be published at the end of July by The Aftershock Review....

I'm delighted to feature today a poem by Stephen Claughton, taken from his pamphlet titled  The 3-D Clock (Dempsey & Windle, 2020)....

I have another new poem in The Spectator this week, using the closing minutes of a football match as a metaphor for old age. You can read it...

Pleasantly surprised to find my name on the cover of The New Criterion. I wish I could show it to my parents...!

Here's my new article on Pablo García Casado's exceptional poetry. It's just been published in the latest issue of The Madrid Re...

As I move ever deeper into the third print run of Whatever You Do, Just Don’t , I find myself reflecting more and more on the complete irrel...