Well it seems to have been a very long time since I posted anything. I expect you have been visiting the site and expecting more posts, and sadly you turn away, disappointed. I don't blame you.

The truth is I've been busy. Poetry has had to take a back seat. I read at The Troubadour in July - and that was great and in August I received the last of four rejections from four poetry magazines.

Things have been very busy at home too. I'm teaching new courses and the family needs more and more of me. I think I've been using poetry as a hiding place - a wall to keep the world away - to some extent that means my wife and children.

That seems completely unacceptable to me when I look at it that way. So I'm putting writing poetry onto the back burner. I'll only write something if I can do it very quickly. That seems like a good exercise anyway. So don't expect much.

Poetry workshop in Leicester coming up.