October '25 MockingHeart Review, published my poem,After the Rupturewhich was inspired by Clemency* Burton -Hill and the devastating Arena documentary on her recovery from a brain haemorrhage. You can watch it here * Clemency's name is misspelt on their website despite my pleas to get it right
September '25 My poem on the tragic death of Albrecht Haushofer, Heimat, has been published in Prosetrics Literary Magazine. Their Whelve issue is out now.
June '25 The Crank, Humphrey Astley's literary magazine with a contrarian bent, has published my poem on Osip Mandelstam which you can read here
May '25 Today, May 28th, I have made it to three years of a poem a day. It has been a morning ritual, a limbering up for the day, which has led to me writing more and going back to craft some of those poems into finer shape. You can read one from each year here
March '25 For the second year running, my poetry was amongst the highly commended for the Erbacce Poetry Prize The Ekphrastic Review published my poem Eve, a response to Dyane Jackson's artwork of the same name
February '25 One thousand daily poems, one thousand ways of exploring the days here November '24 What lies beneath this rising, a poem responding to a stunning, subtle and unsettling artwork made in response to bones from a slave cemetry disturbing sunbathers' delight has been published by Cathexis Northwest Press. Read it here
October '24 New love, new neurosis, New York, New York, the Gramercy Review pushing out new poetry: Bringing her back here
July ‘24 The Mackinaw, an online literary journal, published six of my prose poems which you can read here...
Lorette C. Luzajic, at The Ekphrastic Review, published my piece on Philip Guston which you can read here
In the Classical Association Poetry Competition, my poem Ariadne Sings the Blues was highly commended
June '24 The Ekphrastic Review published my prose poem on Arshile Gorky, Gorky as Naturalist? Read it here
I made it to two years of writing a poem a day, a sort of journal in verse. Read more here
April '24 The Ekphrastic Review published my prose poem Via Dolorosa on the 19th
The Pomegranate London are to publish my poem Every hollow holds a hallow in their Issue 6
August '23 My Homage to Nina Simone , a response to Bob Thompson's painting was published in The Ekphrastic Review. A huge thankyou toLorette C. Luzajic and all the fantastic work she does there
June '23 On May 28th, I completed the challenge set of writing a poem a day for a year : a reflection on the previous day's events, personal & political. You can read more here
June '21 Furrow, the play written in lockdown with Abraham Parker, has had its first staging as part of the Wandsworth Arts Fringe. We will be performing it again on 9th, 10th, 11th July. February '21 The thaw has brought site visits to London's green spaces for the post-lockdown staging of Furrow, a new play co-written with Abraham Parker for Vocal Point Theatre. Hopefully, as the world opens up the first performances will take place in July this year.
January '21 Amidst the gloom of winter's dark and a lockdown, George Saunders has offered a wonderful gift to all readers and writers to lift the spirits. Having just finished his wonderful book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, I can only say thank you.
June '20 The first draft of a new play finished; co-written - in the most unusual way -with Abraham Parker for Vocal Point. December '19 Aching Parts: On the long list for the script development submission at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
November '19 Aching Parts: an informal reading with actors, Karen Archer, David Collings & Leda Douglas, to a small invited audience. The reading was followed by a feedback session with comments, questions and suggestions to help take the play forward.
May '19 Haunted: a script development workshop for a new play about the two Marys, Wollstonecraft and Shelley, with young actors at LEH School for Write The Girl project. Currently in development.
November '18 The Right Kind of Violence: reading with actors George MacKay, Kezia Joseph, Adam Newington, Faaiz Mbelizi, Karen Archer & Rupert Simonian.
November '17 Mooring: tour of homeless and vulnerable centre and recovery colleges, including 240 Project, St Mungo's, Bethany House (Islington), Conway House (Kilburn), & The Spitalfields Trust, culminating in a final public performance at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch on Tuesday 21st November.
June '17 We Only Notice When It's Gone: finalist for the Galtelli Literary Prize, an international short story award in honour of Grazia Deledda.
January '17 Yellow Fever: an abridged version of the play directed by Alex Buranova at Microtheater, Los Angeles.