The Poetics of Space

The Poetics of Space after Bachelard [an introduction] “A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.” My house is sometimes a chair I sit on in a different country, a tent, a beach, the woods I return to in...

New Course

Delighted to be teaching again for the Poetry School in Jan 2020: Poetics of Space after Bachelard. https://poetryschool.com/courses/poetics-of-space-after-bachelard-international/

Re-Writing Essex

I had such a brilliant time, showcasing my re-write/translation/interpretation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and hearing the re-writes of Moll Flanders by Martha Pailing and Dracula by Damian le Bass. Just love a commission! Rewriting...

Writing Self in Poetry

  What is self & how do I write it?   Colossal, tumescent questions hanging & waiting to drop. In their falling the splattered matter of their existence is what poetry picks up (poetry that I like to read & write anyway.) The splattered matter of...