LIVES OF F poem 3 – The Gothic School & the Trampoline – process blog & audio recording. The idea that all fiction and life-writing is an interplay between inner worlds and [...]
LIVES OF F POEM 2: Baby F & the Lion Tamer: The problem of God or The Lion Tamer – Process blog #2 Most people ‘get’ the uses of metaphor and figurative language in poetry. In the UK, [...]
Starting out on UEA’S Creative Writing MA, a benign older poet once scanned the work I’d emailed to him and said ‘you are definitely a writer.’ This comment kind of hits the nail on my particular [...]
Circus Poem 3. Aerial Hoop. Women who suspend themselves, lashes glued, lycra flesh gussied round a glittering hoop hang in conviction. There is craft in being gripped [...]