
Interviews can be so distressing — take Carl’s job …
I like interview poems and here’s an example from my forthcoming Salt collection The Departure. It’s a rather sinister interaction that slowly unfolds. I hope you like it. I’ve no idea what period it’s set in, but I do know it’s not now — and it’s located somewhere in New York City, somewhere a little [...]

A new interview with me about poets and technology
There’s a new interview with me discussing poets and technology over at Nic Sebastian’s Blog Very Like a Whale. 1. Characterize your general attitude as a poet towards technology. The end of hope. No, I’ve worked with new technology in publishing for almost twenty years, so a lot of my immediate thinking here centres around [...]

Four poems from “Radio Nostalgia”
Radio Nostalgia Paperback 92 pages November 2005 ISBN 1-904614-19-1 Here are four poems from Radio Nostalgia “The Journey”, “Loose Meat”, “Black Flake” and “The Curtain”.
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Another poem driven out of a workshop challenge from Roddy Lumsden, though this naughtily ignored the terms of the challenge and was co-opted by news events unfolding in Austria and the USA of family’s held in captivity. The Fritzl case was one thing echoing in my mind. Then there was the Garrido case. But the [...]

A little heresy does you good …
The Third Church of Christ Psychopath In the Third Church of Christ Psychopath no ruined mothers may pray for dust. Occasionally unelected Elders order random executions of executives that priests on weekdays covertly choose as saints. And large-scale whippings often ensue on traditional Nights of Holy Disaffection. Such nights being wholly charged with miraculous bouts [...]



