Creative Transformation: In this creative writing exercise we are going to be allowing ourselves to go into positive, rewarding, uplifting territory. That doesn’t mean we deny that terrible and horrendous …
Poetic Encounters #1 – A guest post by Andrew Howe – Visual Artist
Since the start of the year, I’ve been collaborating with visual artist Andrew Howe, as part of the Encounters Exhibition at the Visual Arts Network Gallery in Shrewsbury, which opened on …
Dundee University Review of the Arts – ‘Flocks of Words’
The excellent DURA have posted a review of ‘Flocks of Words’. I am absolutely delighted by this beautifully written and thoughtful exploration of my poetry collection. I feel very well …
Review of ‘Flocks of Words’ – The Book
I’m very grateful to Pat Edwards (website mashup arts ), organiser of Verbatim Poetry on the Welsh Border, for reading and reviewing my new collection – Flocks of Words. It’s a strange …
Imagined Worlds – Coleridge and Kublai Khan
As a young person, I was very fortunate to have an excellent education. However, I fear it was a bit lacking in regards to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I went to an American …
Walking the Hills
Shropshire Hills – The Lawley from Caer Caradoc with The Wrekin beyond Earlier this year I received a commission to write a poem for a hydro-geologist, for his birthday.I was …
Windows: looking in, looking out
Cape Cod Morning – 1950 by Edward Hopper Edward Hopper (1882-1967) was raised in New York State, not very far from where I grew up, although, I hasten to add, …
Speaking to the birds
St Francis preaching to the birds- Giotto di Bondone (1266-1337)detail from the Predella of St Francis Receiving the StigmataMusee du Louvre, Paris(The cockerel in the back row seems particularly attentive) …
Sleeping Dogs
A Dog lying on a Ledge by a Genoese Artist (circa 1650-1680)Ashmolean Museum, Oxford This painting caught my eye when I was last in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The …
Robin Redbreast and the Wren
Robin from the Sherbourne Missal, c. 1400, BL Add. MS 74236 Fascination with birds is something I will admit to, although I am not a bird watcher except in the …
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