24.5.14

Post election:  another letter in Guardian today -- and pretty little cartoon:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/23/ukip-signals-labours-great-chance

Letter is second one down, slightly pruned so not as literate as it was.

The EU Marine Board's 10 Year Report on the seas, underwater habitats and climate change, illustrated by my poem, 'Pavlopetri', has gone to Press. It will be presented at a global Conference in Rome this autumn.


Website Updates:

My reading at Cheltenham Poetry Festival, 6 April, 2014, is posted as an audio recording on the link from Home Page.

My poem 'The Wilding Eye', published by the University of Oxford, in Oxford Magazine, Nought Week, Trinity Term, 2014, is now posted here as new Work.

A new teeny picture of me is on the Home Page.

29 April,2014 Very pleased. My new title poem 'The Wilding Eye' has appeared in Oxford Magazine, nought week issue. In a week or two I'll get it put up on my new work page. Should have Cheltenham recording up by then too, and even a more bearable recent photo!

10 April,2014

Two new poems in April Issue, Quadrant, Australia. Journal available here in UK also. Two poems by Mayra Schneider too. A poem also by Clive James.

7 April, 2014

Reading at Cheltenham poetry festival yesterday was really good fun. A great crowd, very receptive audience. Ross, Robin and Anna, the Festival and event organizers, are the kindest most thoughtful  people I have come across in these contexts. A great thanks to them for making it all so easy and comfortable.

21 March, 2014. Guardian letter on the Budget, and main letter quote. Link here:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/20/budget-spin-bribery-not-jot-humanity

20 March, 2014. Oxford Poetry to publish next term, the poem I have decided will be the title poem of my next book. Very pleased Lucy likes it  -- I value her judgement!