I will be offering this as a free download from this evening as it Bastille day.GRASS CLOUDS contains everything I have written as ‘poetry’ since I arrived in Nottingham in 2002 so about 20 years worth Contains 80 poems and some illustrations. I will be reading from it on Tuesday August 2nd at the Organ…
the drifting village
First Assignment – Influence?
My poetry bookshelves..about half the collection built up over 25 years…. I am really struggling with the simplest thing. The first assignment for Creative Writing M.A. is straightforward enough : Identify one writer whose work has been in some way influential to the development of your own creative writing practice. Discuss one or…
Downland Ballad I :Photo-disintegration
Fully five acres further east and fifty years on from Harwell’s neutron beam photo-disintegration a clump of Queen Anne’s Lace* wavers like a bridesmaid’s posy above the quarried chalk and flint of this erased line. The track that gravelled and iron girded once carried trundling freight to Southampton docks and salt air. Like a distant…