Delighted once again to feature in the excellent Writers’ Cafe Magazine. My grateful thanks to editor Marie Lightman for including my poem ‘A Table Unset’ among so many excellent contributions from a stellar cast. If you would like to read it, click here and scroll down.

Really pleased to see my poem ‘Lizard For Company’ in Now Then Manchester’s Word Life section where this month theme was friendship. Most grateful to curator Elizabeth Gibson for publishing this poem that describes exquisite summer months in 2012 spent in the company of this remarkable little creature we named Lizarazu! You can read it by clicking here (and scrolling down the page)

Delighted to feature once again in this issue on the theme of “Corridors and Passageways” produced by editor Marie Lightman who has done another excellent job. My poem ‘Nightwandering’ can be found by clicking here and scrolling down towards the end of this really stimulating colllection by so many fine poets.

Proud to see my poem ‘A Bonnie Fighter’ in this touching anthology compiled by editor Kate Garrett-Nield as a way of expressing her gratitude to the staff at Leeds General Hospital Congenital Hearts Unit for helping her baby Bonnie after a heart defect was discovered in the days after her birth. I feel very honoured to be in this collection of poems by many talented poets. A recommended read!

I have a poem ‘Not Quite 8½’ in the latest Writers’ Cafe Magazine, on a theme of shoes. Big thanks to editor Marie Lightman for publishing it and producing another fine collection. You can read it by clicking here and scrolling down.

Quite literally over the moon that my poem ‘Fishing for Stars’ is in there amongst this wonderful collection of poems, short fiction, visual art and experimental media. Thanks so much to editor Amy Kinsman. You can find it by clicking here and scrolling to page 8.

Delighted that my poem ‘On The Cards’ is among so many wonderful pieces in this latest issue of The Writers’ Cafe Magazine. I am so grateful to editor Marie Lightman. You can read it by clicking here and scrolling down.

So very pleased that my poem ‘When The Music Stops’ has been included among lots of wonderful pieces in the latest The Writers’ Cafe Magazine Issue 5: “Love and Music”. Many thanks to editor Marie Lightman. You can read the magazine here

(you’ll find ‘When The Music Stops’ if you scroll down a bit).

A memorable day. ‘It’s All Over’ is my first poem to be published at Algebra of Owls. Mega-chuffed to have a poem up at one of my favourite sites. Massive thanks to the editorial team Paul Vaughan, Hannah Stone and Nick Allen.

You can read ‘It’s All Over’ by clicking here

Pleased to see my Hendrix-flavoured poem ‘Blue Haze’ up at Visual Verse. As usual, there are lots of inspired responses. This fantastic site posts a visual prompt each month and asks for responses (50-500 words) to be written in a time limit of one hour. To read my poem, click here