less than 1 minute read

  • Theres a new poem of mine up on Fevers of the Mind. Its called Failed Hypothesis, go here to read it.

  • I love these cold clear winter days. Here’s a photo I took yesterday by the harbour:


  • If you’re writing anything in any capacity you should take some time to read this amazing essay by Kali Wallace. It’s something I’ve touched on before, the pressure to keep working, but articulated so beautifully and painfully:

Write something else. Write it faster. And network more, because those failures are your fault. You don’t follow enough writers on Twitter. You don’t read enough agent newsletters. You don’t go to enough conventions. You don’t know the right people.>

Oof.

  • Philip Levine reads Let Me Begin Again. Just a stunning poem.

  • On poetry, here’s readings from the recent T. S. Eliot prize. UK poetry is in a great space at the moment.

You may also enjoy

Midsummer

less than 1 minute read

Our days are longest now, we hold the light solid between our fingers, like putty, before twirling, once more unstoppable. These are days we dream of deep in...

May 2022 Input

3 minute read

May went so fast. It was a fallow period creatively for me, I put nothing on this blog and didn’t send any poems out. I hid away from the flags and jingoism....

April 2022 Input

3 minute read

I can’t believe we are a third of the way through 2022. The tulips have bloomed and died back, warmer days are just around the corner. I haven’t done a lot o...