My latest collection of poems is available from Longbarrow Press. Little Piece of Harm is a narrative sequence that focuses on 24 hours in the life of a city that has been shut down in the aftermath of a shooting. As this act of violence ramifies outwards, the sequence explores the geographical reach of Sheffield…
Posted on 28th March 2021 in Publications
Click here to view the full project The River Don begins in the Pennines on the gritstone moors above Penistone, and ends its seventy mile progress easing through the wide flat-lands of Humberside, joining the River Ouse at Goole. The section of the river that interests me, that I have sought to depict in this…
Posted on 5th March 2012 in Publications
The Safe House has been a long time in the making. The book almost feels like a Selected Poems from the past ten years, what with my prison poems included as a section, and the river poems having a ‘chapter’ too. There’s lots of new work here as well, poems written in the last five…
Posted on 2nd March 2012 in Publications
Hard on the Knuckle mostly details my experiences as a writer-in-residence at HMP Nottingham. I worked at the prison from November 1997 to February 1999. At the time, the institution housed “lifers” and remand inmates so I worked with a whole range of individuals at different stages in their prison lives. The collection also includes a…
Posted on 2nd March 2012 in Publications
It has been shown by linguists and psychologists that babies can make all the phonic sounds of all the words of all the languages in the world, whether they are needed or not by the baby for the language (or languages) he or she will inherit, learn. It is only once babies begin to construct…
Posted on 1st March 2012 in Publications