‘I could tell you my adventures-beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland When Jim…
Two of my yōkai poems pop up in Issue 18 of Gramarye, the journal of the University of Chichester’s Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction. I wanted to praise the journal on several…
During the Covid-19 pandemic, I have been exceptionally lucky. When the first lockdown hit in March 2020, I kept my job, was able to work remotely, was able to stay outside London with my partner…
Maybe I’ve been watching too many old Midsomer Murders episodes, but recently I’ve been thinking about blackmail. Specifically, how one might blackmail different people using their fears, their vices and the public image they desperately…
Last year, I was lucky enough to work with the Wellcome Collection, voicing audio versions of six articles by disabled artist and activist Jamie Hale on the subject of Art, Activism & Access. Hale’s brilliant…
I’ve reviewed two collections for the Summer 2020 issue of the excellent Poetry Wales: Matthew Haigh’s Death Magazine (Salt Publishing, 2019) and Roberto Pastore’s Hey Bert (Parthian, 2019). Here’s a couple of teasers: On Death…
Here’s the redoubtable JT Welsch and I, owning and being robots at York Waterstones, as part of the NxNE poetry readings series organised by Harry Man.
The stunning Salt Publishing have just announced the return of their Salt Modern Poets list! And to mark the occasion, they’re releasing paperback versions of my first collection, Never Never Never Come Back, and Jon Stone’s…
As if interspecies paranormal relationships weren’t enough, I’ve written for The Rumpus on the parallel insecurities in writing and kink. “Playing A Part: Imposter Syndrome in Kink and Writing” is an exploration of the pressures we…
Poetry publishing can be fun, rewarding and inspiring, but it can also prove tough, isolating and tiring. With that in mind, I’ve written this short piece for the wonderful BookMachine about the need for poetry…
