'And they lived happily ever after ...'

Dear Abigail Your story, Did You Get Married To Her When I Was In The Mental Hospital?  (published by ZamaShort ) is not meant to be an ea...

Margaret Clough died this week, at the age of 90. This is my tribute to her. " What a joy to read your review of my book," she wro...

A while back, one of my fellow-poets invited us to generate poems for a new brand of naartjies, Clemengold. They were awarding prizes. A few...

I have periodically reviewed volumes of poetry and, at times, novels, too. It is an honour and a responsibility. The more experience one gai...

I am speaking to somebody who has no experience in either reading or writing poems, but who is interested in the craft. "Tell me,...

My apologies to all who may have been inconvenienced by last night's post - 'Caution: Poet at Play' - which I had to delete afte...

Friday afternoon was fun, yet again working with Riccardo in the valley below Tor Doone, at a tiny waterfall I'd not visited before. I...

Across the summer grasses' fattened heads, the wild herbs' yellow blooms - two pigeons at the bird-bath, sipping in turn. They ...

Philosophy in loins My letters, these days, step at times not in terrain I've been - barefoot, plain they point almost away from...

Filmmaker Riccardo Magnanini asked me some months back to say a few things about my book to my readers, so I did, spontaneously. Riccardo ...