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Didicoy, Creative Writing @ Leicester

I’m delighted to see my pamphlet, Didicoy, featured on the Creative Writing @ Leicester. It’s a fantastic page featuring both poetry and prose reviews. Do check it out and read some of the poems from my pamphlet. My thanks to Jonathan Taylor of Leicester University for including my pamphlet on the blog.

Book Launch at the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere

I was honoured to read at the Poetry Business book launch at The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere. A massive congratulations to Zoë Walkington, Jon Miller and Luke Samuel Yates and last years winners Dean Browne, Maya C Popa, Jim McElroy, Anastasia Taylor-Lind. It was wonderful to have both Steve Barton and Sarah Wimbush there to shareContinue reading “Book Launch at the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere”

Didicoy

(update: Didicoy is now the Poetry Book Society recommended pamphlet, summer 2023! I’m absolutely thrilled.)Today I signed-off on the final edits of my first book with my wonderful editors, Ann and Peter Sansom. As of this evening Didicoy is wending its way to the printer in readiness for its launch on March 3rd. I’d likeContinue reading “Didicoy”

Vampira

Yesterday, I spent many wonderful, and thankfully cool, hours investigating this intriguing femme fatale. Her name is Maila Elizabeth Niemi, but she’s better known to fans of kitsch horror as Vampira. As with so many theatricals there is a deal of ‘creating your own persona’ in her history – which I love – but it was herContinue reading “Vampira”