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I will be giving a reading for the Fire River Poets based in Taunton, UK, on Thursday 6th November from 19:15 – 22:00.
I will be reading in two 15/20 minute slots and there is an opportunity for floor readers if...
This review is an extended version of the one which first appeared in Acumen Poetry Magazine in the autumn of 2025. Many thanks to the reviews editor, Andrew Geary, for commissioning it.
With the sad news of the passing of Tony Harrison, who as a working class poet had a great impact on me during my formative years of writing in the 1980s, I went back to a piece I was commissioned to write for an OUP collection of essa...
A little flock of reading dates – replacing the swifts that have left our skies recently – have gathered themselves into something that almost resembles a brief Autumn Reading Tour. Admittedly, not going too far beyond the Gre...
