Zombie Fire

I have been sorting through my documents and re-arranging things over the past little while. In the process I have come across a lot of half-finished thoughts and poems. Here's a poem where I was clearly experimenting (and struggling) with a rythym scheme - and with using poetry to respond to news. So far this … Continue reading Zombie Fire →

Another poem

I decided to write a poem for every day in May as I worked through the responses from my beta readers to my cookbook, and also worked on editing a short creative non-fiction piece. Half way through the month I started looking over the poems I wrote at the start of the month, deciding if … Continue reading Another poem →

Spring poem

I read an Erle Stanley Gardner/Perry Mason novelette last month. It was not exactly literary, but it was exciting and fun in places. The novelette came in a hardcover book with two other novelettes, which I decided I didn't need to read. (Did I mention these popular lawyer-detective books were not exactly literary?) What was … Continue reading Spring poem →

‘Verb at Pinhole Poetry

Please visit Pinhole Poetry to read my most recent publication, a poem from my poetry project, known as 'Verb!

Winter poem

After writing 365+ poems, sporadically over about a year's time, there was a lot of selection work to put together a collection (which is currently being polished up in preparation for seeking publication.) This is a poem that I held in consideration for a couple of rounds, but ultimately decided it wasn't quite right. Still, … Continue reading Winter poem →