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The Day Bowie Died

– a poem written yesterday for the new collection called “Blue: experiments in sound” which will be finished by the end of this month. Seemed appropriate to share

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What Colour is 2016?

Can a year be a specific colour? Is this some sort of synaesthetic experiment? Well, not exactly. I have written several posts about BlueWater Books

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City Lights San Francisco

The quietness on this blog can be explained by the fact that I got married and went on a honeymoon with my wife June. We toured

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Bounded peace

This is the latest poem written in the sequence I am currently working on. The sequence is called “Blue: experiments in sound” and it includes a

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Oblivion

A new poem today – from a forthcoming publication without a title as yet. It’s the fourth sequence of poems about a character called Blue.

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Deliberate Creativity

Yes, it’s a sister post to yesterday’s post about “Accidental Creativity”. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Chris Guillebeau’s book “The Happiness of

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National Poetry Day

A poem for National Poetry Day. From a new collection of poems due out very soon… Yes, a small kiss It begins like this, yes,

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Making music

Over the past few months I have been experimenting with music and sounds to see if I can make backing tracks over which I can

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This Septic Isle

Time for another Guest post. This time a new Guest Collaboration, a collaboration between two colleagues who have experience of working in the public sector. The

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