Performing at the launch of SJ Fowler’s Sticker Poems in London last week. What a pleasure to perform again! & out in the wild too! Sticker Poems and Virtual Oasis, the anthology of AI-inspired poetry I read from, are published by Trickhouse Press. They also published my selection of minimal poems, ATOMISED, last year.
One of the most bewitching books I’ve read this year.
No puppy or dog will ever be capable of this, and surely no parrot. No one can ask another a rhetorical question. We can only read stray rocks and first we must learn their names.
I hadn’t written a poem in ages and it was starting to smart. And then this happened. Sometimes all you need to do is drink wine in the rain.
328 years ago today Bashō set off on the narrow road to the deep north. His eponymous travelogue is one of my favourite books of all time.
The Cold Tap Sings 