Charming Men
Gigs, gigs, gigs. There was a time, ooh about 30 years ago, when I’d be out at gigs two or three times a week. Lockdown aside, I can count on…
Gigs, gigs, gigs. There was a time, ooh about 30 years ago, when I’d be out at gigs two or three times a week. Lockdown aside, I can count on…
What to wear? What will I wear?! As the days count down to a spoken word gig, I find myself having what I call a “Clothes Faff.” I used to…
I love the BBC TV series Art That Made Us. It’s currently showing on BBC2 and is a co-production with The Open University. The series covers 1500 years and presents…
Hard to believe it’s a whopping 37 years since I wrote my first “proper” poem. I was 15 and on holiday in Northern Ireland. “The Troubles” were ongoing so the…
This time next week I’ll be limbering up and enjoying my usual clothes faff ahead of an afternoon gig in Morpeth. I’m delighted to be part of the Morpeth Book…
Way back in November 2017 Emma Whitehall read from her work in progress at Pure Fiction, a regularish evening event dedicated to fiction I’d started the previous year. November 2017’s…
I’m typing as Storm Eunice passes through this corner of North East England. We’ve come off lightly compared to the rest of the country and to last November’s Storm Arwen….
I wasn’t surprised to hear of Thích Nhất Hạnh’s death over the weekend. I’d known of his increasing fraility and the fact he’d returned to his birthplace of Vietnam to…
The New Year’s only just begun and so far I have found two messages. I see them as New Year gifts to a curious soul. What do they mean? I…
Last Friday the North East coast of Britain experienced the raw power of nature and felt the effects of the climate emergency. Storm Arwen put rampant consumerism in its place…