Childhood sweetheart, oh, how you shine in this city of mine…

It was lovely to have this poem published on the Dagda Publishing website (fairly) recently, http://dagdapublishing.com/2012/12/19/childhood-sweetheart-oh-how-you-shine-in-this-city-of-mine/ since I greatly enjoyed writing this poem. It is a cento (well, loosely), which means that every line comes from a different poet’s poem, and each poem came from Concrete Jungles a poetry anthology about cities which was published by …

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A guest post about the creation of ‘The Ballad of the Beach’

I was really pleased to be able to liaise with Lisa Hassan Scott so that a piece of my writing about the creation of my poem ‘The Ballad of the Beach’ could be published on her excellent blog. It was really good to see my poetry on her blog (me? A guest blogger?!) and to …

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