23 August, 2014. Another Guardian letter; this time on-line, and on British jihadists:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/22/action-reaction-middle-east-isis

21. 8. 14 I have accepted a kind invitation to read at Cheltenham Poetry Festival again next year --sometime around 24 April. Should have new book in tow. Yippee. Great fun there last time.

19.8.14 Albion Beatnik. 18 October, 2014:
Reading to Spark Audience Participation event created:

Jane Draycott, Beatrice Garland, Andrew Smardon, and me

https://www.facebook.com/events/1463599843898688/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

Not sure how to make this link live: but if you look up Albion Beatnik Bookship, Oxford, events,
you can see details on all of us.  I'm really excited by this new experiment!

9.8.14 New embroidery up Review page. A snake for a half Chinese, half English, baby born in the year of the snake!

6 August, 2014. Have been invited to give a reading for Cheltenham's Well Versed Poetry Evening,
10 October, 2014, at the Muffin Man Cafe, Cheltenham. I look forward to it.

24.7.14

Pavlopetri. last week I gave permission for my poem, 'Pavlopetri' to be used by Greek conservationists to help save the submerged town-site, the oldest one in the world.

The submerged town is at risk from Greek and foreign tankers --Japanese, Russian, Italian, etc., using Vatika Bay where it is conserved for cleaning their dirty hulls, with the connivance of the Greek Government which collects fees for this activity.

Nic Flemming, who discovered the site, writes today that there is a campaign meeting tonight in Neapolis to build support to lobby the Greek Government about this. Scientists are ready to do a report showing how the site is being damaged by the pollution.

Pavlopetri is very fragile. Once it is gone, it can never be recovered. If anyone can help Nic and the conservationists and scientists trying to save it, please do. If you send me an email on my contact page with your own email address. I'll give the information to Nic and the Greek coordinator.

Better still, if you have clout, just put pressure or lobby yourself.

17.7.14

The New Statesman has just accepted another poem. 'After Copernicus' will appear in the Journal  later this year.