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2011


Busy



December 2010


...poems taken for Soul Feathers, Macmillan Cancer Support Anthology, Danse Macabre, The New Writer, HQ Poetry Magazine, Thick With Conviction, Welsh Poetry Competition and Gloom Cupboard - many thanks to the editors

July 2010


3rd ...more great news!! - - Poem
"Like Trying to Stop People Feeding Bread to Ducks"
now up on Counterexample Poetics
Here - Counterexample Poetics: Assemblage of Experimental Artistry

- Yay!!
Two poems, "Procession" and "No Sun, No Magic"
accepted for Issue One of 'Psychic Meatloaf'
to be published around 1st August
Do check out their website -
Psychic Meatloaf - Journal of Contemporary Poetry




June 2010


21st - Great News !!
My poem Porth Mawr will be in issue 12
Drown In My Own Fears
and
Like Trying to Stop People Feeding Bread to Ducks
will be in Counterexample Poetics sometime in July.

Websites:
Drown In My Own Fears - Here
Counterexample Poetics - Here


5th - Have you seen this mag?
Anastomoo publishes scans
of hand-written poetry/prose
Website here

Do have a peek at my own messy scrawl
here



May 2010


25th - Yay! 'Thames and Benches' accepted for Streetcake issue 11
Website here



20th - (!!) - 'There's Nothing on Telly' will be in Fourteen Magazine issue 10
website here



3rd - Poetry Monthy International Issue 19 May 2010 - pdf for a limited time only - http://bit.ly/aVxtEm - [Moi? For sure! 2 poems - 'Switchback' and 'Splints' :-)]


1st - Yay!! Email today from Martin Holroyd
2 poems due to be published
Poetry Monthly International May 2010
Switchback and Splints
website - HERE


April 2010


26th - Hooray!! Email from Ashley Fisher,
Co-editor, Turbulence Magazine,
they're including 2 of my poems in Issue 3!!
(Cathedral Vista and The Flower Shops)
due out May 2010
do check out their website - HERE


17th - 2 poems now live on Disingenuous Twaddle HERE


March 2010


30th - today I've updated my ABOUT details - about


GOOD NEWS
16th - two poems Clear Morning
and Underground Prayer
accepted by Disingenuous Twaddle
Click here for the website


GOOD NEWS
13th - yay! had an email today from Martin Lucas
A haiku of mine will be in Presence #41
(due May 2010)
Click here for Presence
Britain’s leading independent haiku journal



GOOD NEWS
10th - Nikki Dudley and Trini DeCombe
editors of streetcake magazine
emailed to say they'll be including my poem
Per Capita in the next issue - number 10
click here to visit streetcake
streetcake - the online magazine for innovative, experimental and visual writing



GOOD NEWS
6th - been emailed today and told that
From Blue Sky will be in Issue Two of Cake
- the literary magazine based at Lancaster University
click here to see details of Cake


February 2010


GOOD NEWS
2nd - An email today from Mike Jenkins (co-editor) - my poem Chocolate Box (re-titled to Landscape)
is to be published in Red Poets magazine.
click here to visit Red Poets website


December 2009


GOOD NEWS
5th - yay! A note today from Geoff Stevens
my poem Holiday Cottage has been accepted
for Urban District Writer
click here to visit Purple Patch website


November 2009


GOOD NEWS
30th - Martin Holroyd, editor of Poetry Monthly International emailed to say my poem Ants will be in the December issue (14).
click here to visit PMI website


GOOD NEWS
12th - Issue four of ouroboros review is now live
Yours truly on page 43
click here to have a look




GOOD NEWS
6th. Two poems Bob and You're Free
to be published in Osprey Journal issue 5
February 2010
click here to visit Osprey website


October 2009


GOOD NEWS
7th. Kathy's Caravan (poem) published in
Urban District Writer
issue 8.
click here to visit Purple Patch website


September 2009


GOOD NEWS
29th. The Concept of Pervasive Evil published on
The Cleave
.
click here to visit The Cleave website


GOOD NEWS
22nd. My poem Sanctus accepted for Roundyhouse, probably issue 29. Two more poems Conservation Area and Why is this Street Important? are being held for future possible use.
click here for web details of Roundyhouse


3rd. I've added some more words lists, this time big lists of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
Hope they're useful -
take a look here - nouns, verbs etc
click
then scroll down page to Parts of Speech Files


August 2009


GOOD NEWS
31st. A very exciting end to the month.
I had two emails today -
Phuoc-Tan Diep, editor of The Cleave, has awarded me poem of the month for Down by the Lake!
click here to visit The Cleave website

and Michelle Foster, editor of Inclement
(poetry for the modern soul) will be publishing six of my poems in the Winter 2009 issue - [Disenchanted, Evening Out, Hollowness, In The Days, Provenance, and Sensitivity and Understanding Will Get You Shot]
click here to visit Inclement website



GOOD NEWS
25th - I've had an email from Dawn Bauling (Editor): six poems accepted for the next issue of Sarasvati
[issue 006 due mid to late September]
Faramel, Lifesaver, Memory Effect,
Seasons End, Never to Return, Tension, Zone
click here to visit the website



GOOD NEWS
Thursday 20th - After a short holiday in London
I returned to find a couple letters -

Alice Lenkiewicz (editor) has written to say
two of my poems, Children of the White Islands
and Whitewell-on-Sea will be published in the
next issue of Neon Highway
click here to visit the website

and

Ronnie Goodyer (editor) from Reach Poetry
writes that he'll be publishing
Whilst On Holiday In Liverpool
and I want to be a Beat Poet
click here to visit the website
!!


GOOD NEWS
My poem Down by the Lake published
in The Cleave 8th August
click here to visit their website


GOOD NEWS
I heard today (3rd) from Jo Hemmant, (editor)
that ouroboros review will be publishing my poem
As You Are, So It Is in their issue 4
click here to visit their website


July 2009

New Snapshot and Landscape Photos
Click Here



* New - Poem of the Day *
a new poem every day!


meanwhile, I'm writing and revising
and submitting to publishers

GOOD NEWS
I've been accepted to study for an MA
at Lancaster University!!
(starting October 2009)

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April 2009

I'm submitting new writings direct to publishers
The older pieces will remain here
for the time being

Eventually I'll do some extracts as tasters
but at the moment I'm very busy writing

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