Rogue Strands

My OPOI review of Miriam Gordis' pamphlet Vinyl (Eyewear Publishing, 2018) is now up at Sphinx and you can read it by following this li...

I'll always remember that sweltering but terrific evening at the LRB bookshop last June when I launched my first full collection...

And so I'm now back in Extremadura, following an excellent evening at the South Downs Poetry Festival in Chichester. I very much enjoyed...

Today brings the excellent news that The Knives of Villalejo is now available for purchase. There are two ways for you to get your hands on...

Just a quick reminder: twenty years after writing its first poem, I'll be launching  The Knives of Villalejo  at the London Review Books...

When sifting through the ever-varying pile of poetry books on my desk, I wince at some of the covers, while others just seem to demand that ...

A spot of advance warning: The knives of Villalejo will be launching at the London Review Bookshop (14 Bury Place, WC1A 2JL) on Wednesday 2...

The title of my first full collection, due out on 21st June with Eyewear Publishing, is The Knives of Villalejo . A launch and several readi...

Received wisdom tends to indicate that poets should avoid adverbs whenever possible. This is patently absurd: we need every linguistic tool...

How strange it seems to have written the title to this post. Since starting to place my poems in magazines almost twenty years ago, I've...

The launch of Eyewear Publishing's The Best New British and Irish Poets 2016 anthology is taking place tomorrow (Sunday 20th March), st...

Eyewear Publishing have just announced the fifty poets who are to be featured in their anthology The Best New British and Irish Poets 2016 ....