The Swift Flight of a Sparrow

Narrow Road, Deep North This October I'll be running an online course for The Poetry School. The following blog gives an in-depth...

L-R: John Challis, Andrew McMillan, Degna Stone, Jake Morris-Campbell Last autumn, I was invited over to Durham Town Hall to participat...

Yesterday I submitted my PhD – a practice-led doctoral thesis in Creative Writing – to Newcastle University. The result of three and a hal...

Pleased to say I'm involved with two of the region's literature festivals this autumn. Kicking off with a live podcast on Satu...

According to The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, anemoia is ‘nostalgia for a time you’ve never known’. Explaining the word’s mysteri...

Something of a short placeholder post until later. By which I mean: until the PhD is finished. Probably. Walked the Marratide pi...

Kirkup (L) and Scarfe (R) Yesterday, a small group of people gathered at The Word: National Centre for theWritten Word in South S...