Flying solo…
Renaissance Man is alive and well and living in Middlesbrough. Check out the first solo exhibition by poet, editor, historian and artist, p.a. morbid
Renaissance Man is alive and well and living in Middlesbrough. Check out the first solo exhibition by poet, editor, historian and artist, p.a. morbid
I’ve spent the past week trying to make The Newcastle Photography Festival run smoothly. I wasn’t alone, of course! I was assisting festival organiser Paul and his right hand man,…
“Never again!” I harumphed as I walked out of the Literary and Philosophical Society on Newcastle’s Westgate Road. It was a Monday evening in October 2014 and I was involved…
My earliest poetic loves are what I now know to be comic and so-called nonsense verse. Examples include Edward Lear, Spike Milligan, most nursery rhymes plus Pam Ayres, Stevie Smith…
Today is the 22nd National Poetry Day and I marked it by running a poetry appreciation in a North Tyneside park. Northumberland Park, nestled between North Shields and Tynemouth, is…
I woke up this morning cursing Sir Cliff Richard. Again. It’s the fifth morning in a row I’ve woken up with his 1961 song Theme for a Dream in my…
Just back from The 2016 York National Book Fair which was held at the city’s racecourse. It’s the largest out of print and antiquarian book fair in the UK with…
A friend sent me an email recently with the line “are you running out of fingers yet?!” My chum was referring to all the creative projects I’m involved in. I…
When inspiration comes knocking…open the door! Sounds like obvious advice but how many times have you walked away from creative inspiration? I couldn’t ignore New Zealand poet Janis Freegard when…
Summer’s here but I’ve been busy putting the final touches to my autumn/winter 2016 programme of workshops and one to one creative writing mentoring sessions. It’s a bit complicated in…