magpie bridge

I woke in the middle of the night with the germ of this poem circling inside my head. I got up and sketched the bare bones in the light of a...

I collect phrases I like, ones that I hear or read in books. The trouble is I usually do nothing with them. The other day though, I decided ...

I don't usually use the voice recorder on my phone to jot down ideas as I think the act of speaking them out loud somehow fixes them in ...

I don't have much to say about this poem as I think it's quite self explanatory. I will say that if you can find a copy of any of th...

A couple of weeks ago I said I would take a poem to the Secret Poets for their opinions on it, we met last week. You can read the previous ...

The Secret Poets observed of this post's poem that it need the consequences of the indoor fireworks described. You can read the previous...

Here is a rewrite, I was not happy with the poem. [You can read the earlier version here ]  I made some changes to the layout then discussed...