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Poetry and milky tea - ‘Magpie’s Nest’, won the Frosted Fire First Pamphlet Award 2023
Delighted to have a poem in the Fig Tree about a day at the Crazy Golf in the off season…⛳️
03.11.2025 10:58 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
At the Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels you can see (and hear) what trumpets might have turned out like ❤️
27.10.2025 08:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hanging out with the Choking Charlies at First Aid Training ❤️
08.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Summer might be over but the heated laundry rack is on ❤️
04.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This week I started studying to be a nurse. This antique silver ‘nursing belt’ belonged to my Granny. The designs were specific to the hospitals the nurses trained at ❤️
27.09.2025 09:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Good medicine at the Poetry Pharmacy on Oxford Street ❤️💊
16.09.2025 13:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m in great company in this excellent journal Dream Catcher, and delighted to have a number of poems in it including this duplex with probably the strangest title I’ve ever used, thank you James Joyce! ❤️
15.09.2025 13:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Lady Jane Grey joins me for lunch, rudely facing the other way
08.09.2025 08:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to be included in issue #10 of the Fig Tree with my football (and life) related poem Extra Time ⚽️
02.09.2025 10:35 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
First time in Cornwall, at the beautiful Trevaunance Cove ❤️
31.08.2025 11:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beautiful southern Norway ❤️
13.08.2025 13:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
London Hydraulic Power Company 1882
Some interesting history on the penultimate leg of my 5 year long Thames walk from Oxford to the Barrier ❤️
Made a new friend on my rest day ❤️
01.08.2025 15:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The view from St Mary’s Hospital today - dragon boat races on Paddington Basin
31.07.2025 20:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks to N2 magazine for publishing my nature poem ‘wild’ 🪶
29.07.2025 15:52 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Enjoying the Do Ho Suh memory houses at the Tate Modern ❤️
26.07.2025 15:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Plum time
18.07.2025 18:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Perfect day on the Heath ❤️
09.07.2025 13:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A highlight of my week was the launch of Matthew Paul’s new book - exceptional poems that tell stories of times and people I feel I know ❤️
21.06.2025 11:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The cat brought in a slow worm today!
This friendly chap was put safely in the undergrowth at the back of the garden ❤️
Delighted to receive this gift of poetry in the post from my good friend Steve Moran, who I would describe as the Walt Whitman of Willesden ☺️
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This mural cheered me up on a fruitless mission this morning - it’s June Rose Barber, the longest remaining tenant in her block near Kilburn, done by Global Art Collective in 2020
16.06.2025 12:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Enjoyed this Thames timeline mosaic as we passed St Paul’s on our epic walk of the Thames from Oxford to the Barrier - I’m writing time travel, currently lost in 1995 ❤️
01.06.2025 16:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My new seedlings are doing well this year…
03.05.2025 16:10 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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My poem The Old Man of Stoer published in the beautiful Black Nore Review today ❤️
This is La Hougue Bie on the island of Jersey, one of the ten oldest human sites in the world. It’s a Neolithic passage tomb, and has a 12th century church on the mound above. At summer equinox, the passage is lit by the sun. Amazing to go inside and know people were there 4,000 years ago ❤️
19.04.2025 16:13 — 👍 39 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
My favourite poem from this collection - very well observed but also dreamlike. Love the reference to The Guardian!
09.04.2025 12:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was delighted to do a reading of Magpie’s Nest for a group at the Wellcome Trust yesterday ❤️
Afterwards I visited their Hard Graft exhibition which looks at work and rights - I loved these paintings from health and safety manuals by Lubaina Himid
Studio Ghibli me 📽️
27.03.2025 08:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sunset on A Bay ❤️
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