This Month’s Exclusive Poem for Patrons: Doing Dreams
It’s time to release this month’s exclusive poem for Patrons: Doing Dreams I hope you enjoy it. Till next time, … Read more
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Indie Poetry Please! 02: Tolu Agbelusi, Saili Katebe and @pensandpavement
This is the Instagram TV reading from Indie Poetry Please! — In each session, I’ll be reading three of my own poems and three poems from other indie poets I admire.
The theme this week is “Black Lives Matter” and includes poems from Tolu Agbelusi, Saili Katebe and @pensandpavement.
I’ll be introducing listeners to some of the most exciting, inspiring, and dynamic voices working in poetry today.
Poem of the Week: Where Are You?
I mostly post my poetry first on Instagram, (unless it is a patron-exclusive poem). Each Sunday, here on the blog … Read more
Poem of the Week: Passing On
I mostly post my poetry first on Instagram, (unless it is a patron-exclusive poem). Each Sunday, here on the blog … Read more
This Month’s Exclusive Poem for Patrons: Full Flight
This Month’s Exclusive Poem for Patrons: Full Flight I was going to post a different poem for the exclusive this … Read more
International Poetry Circle
I wanted to tell you about a fantastic social media initiative that is also a great example of the kinds … Read more
This Month’s Exclusive Poem for Patrons: On Reaching 60: Happenings
This Month’s Exclusive Poem for Patrons: On Reaching 60: Happenings I’m posting this after a long day of strange celebrations … Read more
This Month’s Exclusive Poem for Patrons: Flare
This month’s exclusive poem for patrons: Flare. The trees in London are grey and bare at the moment. Just outside … Read more
Allowing Now: The Book and the Poem
I’ve been working on my mindfulness poem “Allowing Now” for a number of years and it’s finally finished. I’ve also been revising some of the poems in that collection.
Poetry for Christmas
The nights are drawing in here in London and the Christmas lights have just been turned on. This is a poem for the season, inspired by the Christmas angel outside Geenpark tube station, Picadilly. You can find it, and more poems for mid-winter, in my Poems for Christmas collection. It’s available in paperback and hardback, as well as ebook, and makes a great gift.
This Month’s Exclusive Poem for Patrons: Soaring
This month’s exclusive poem for patrons is a Christmas poem “Soaring”, inspired by the Chrismas lights on Picadilly, London. SOARING … Read more
This Month’s Exclusive Poem for Patrons: Passing On
This post is about November’s exclusive Patreon poem for patrons: Passing On.
If you would like to read the poem, it becomes available exclusively to my patrons today, for the next three months.
Mindfulness Poetry For Creatives
Allowing Now, my new book of mindfulness poetry for creatives is out. And while they are aimed at the general reader, I have a particular interest in mindfulness poetry for creatives. I’d love you to buy it, if that sort of thing appeals to you.
A New Poem: Tree Alert
The trees in London are spectacular at the moment. This particular beauty gave me a new poem: Tree Alert.
Mindfulness and Poetry: Introduction to Allowing Now and a Mindfulness Poem by Thich Nhat Hanh
Practicing mindfulness, though they would never have called it that, is something that poets have always done. And poetry readers … Read more