Tuesday 17 December 2013

17 December 2013.

The editor of the European Marine Board's strategic report, which covers all planning for the next ten years, including what to do to enable the oceans to survive climate change, has asked if they can include my poem 'Pavlopetri'(originally published in the New Statesman) with a couple of comments of mine, to help illustrate the report. They want to get the sciences and the arts speaking together on this subject and also to make it as accessible as possible. They like the poem and think it will help.

The report goes to a staggering number of countries, places, politicians, cultural leads etc. A huge reach.

Of course I agreed to re-publicication, and feel both proud and humble to be asked!

Wednesday 11 December 2013

12 December 2013

Cheltenham Poetry Festival reading confirmed, 6 April 2014, 12.30 - 2 pm.
Will be reading with Paul Hayward, who will be discussing and reading from the rediscovered and republished work of his father, William Hayward, a poet and novelist from the fifties.

Saturday 7 December 2013

7. 12.13 Another Guardian letter today  -on Mandela. Short snippet only.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/06/you-chose-to-care-mandela

Also new Quadrant poems out now. December issue in shops.

Wednesday 4 December 2013

4 December 2013

My take on Higgs Boson - Warwick Review, December Issue, out tomorrow.