Rogue Strands

I might have expected the wine trade to be affected by tariffs (and it certainly has been), but I didn't bargain for their impact on my ...

On Monday 20th October, I'll be the guest poet at Wells Fountain Poets in Somerset. The venue is The Kings Head and proceedings will get...

I have a new poem in The Oxonian Review . It's titled    ‘ Garbanzos Viudos ’  (i.e.   ‘ Widowed Chickpeas ’ ), and you can read it here...

With a  stellar line-up that would grace any of the top poetry festivals in the country, our  next Rogue Strands Poetry Reading is in London...

Delighted to report that I've had another three recent poems in The Spectator over the past few weeks. Yet again, I'm grateful to t...

So far, I can't recommend Bluesky enough for poetry. Over the past few months, it's enabled me to connect with a lot of poetry peopl...

The encouragement to Tell It Slant! has become popular among many CW lecturers and workshop leaders over the last few years, seemingly as a...