Just a brief happy note to say that my poem Underground in the New Meanwood has been published by Lisa Kelly and Susannah Hart in their edition of Magma, with the theme of ‘conversation’. You can find out a bit more about the issue here.

These birdy photos are from the first in a series of five workshops at Weston Park Museum. We had a great time writing about the ‘Over South Yorkshire Skies’ exhibition, which catalogues all the birds to be seen and heard in South Yorkshire. I’ll be running another four workshops over the coming months, inspired by the museum’s…

I’m delighted to be running another online course with The Poetry School this Autumn term. Here’s a short description of the course from their site: ‘We are all engaged in looting the past. (Only the greatest geniuses manage to steal from the future)’ – Donald Barthelme. Where do you see yourself in 500 years’ time? Living…

Originally posted on new boots and pantisocracies: The New Curriculum With half an hour left of Double Jargon Simon stood up from his chair. He’d already earned detention that day by saying that the air conditioning sounded like the noise that you hear when you put your ear to a shell and now here he…

I’m pleased to announce I’ll be one of the 2015 Aldeburgh Eight, an advanced poetry course held for the duration of the Aldeburgh festival this November and for the following week in Suffolk. There’s some more information about it here and of course I’ll let you know how I get on!

In connection with my residency at Bank Street Arts, I’m also going to be involved in this residency, initiated by Paul Evans. Upcoming events include a writing workshop run by poet A B Jackson on 23rd May 2015, and a two-day festival 20th/21st June at which I will be running a half-day workshop prompting people…

I’m over the moon to be one of the organisers of the 2015 South Yorkshire Poetry Festival, bringing the former Sheffield Poetry Festival to a wider audience, not to mention giving some fantastic poets a platform to perform in Sheffield. Below is the press release information, including a link to the programme. We’re hosting a…

I’m delighted that my poem The Taste is featured in Issue 82 of The Rialto, which is available here. It’s a poem inspired by a radio programme on which I heard someone saying that he belonged to the first generation that can’t taste our cutlery (the speaker was somewhat older than I) and it seemed…

I’m happy to be taking part in Leeds University’s ‘Leads to Leeds’ project, organised by Helen Mort, writing poetry in conversation with Winston Plowes. My poems aren’t up on the website yet as I’m mid-way through the process, but you can read the other excellent ‘poetry conversations’ here.

I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be teaching an online course with The Poetry School, starting in February 2015. You can get more details here!