NCW The Writing Life podcast: from teacher to writer with Ashley Hickson-Lovence

In the autumn I had the pleasure of talking to poet and novelist Ashley Hickson-Lovence for the National Centre for Writing’s The Writing Life podcast. We talked about writing around the day job, committing to one’s writing practice through further study, and the joys of indie publishing. Listen to the end for Ashley’s top tipsContinue reading “NCW The Writing Life podcast: from teacher to writer with Ashley Hickson-Lovence”

Adventures in Reading: invisibility to 111.0

The first of my new Tinyletter newsletter essays about all things books, libraries and reading has gone out today. If you haven’t yet subscribed, you can view the archive and sign up here to receive a monthly essay from me. I hope you’ll join me on my adventures in reading.

Three poems in the White Review

I have poems on the White Review website this month, including one with my writing partner Cat Woodward. Find them here. Read more about my collaboration with Cat here and here.

That listening place

I’ve recently finished the poems for my first collection, holon. And while I edit the collection, and find suitable afterlives for those poems, I’m also starting to think about a new project: for now, until it coalesces, I call it ‘that listening space’. I will use listening as both theme and methodology, and in aContinue reading “That listening place”