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NEW WEBSITE

Thank you for visiting my website. This is all my own creation - okay, I know it's not the flashiest Web 2.0 site in town - but I have written, recorded, sonically tinkered, filmed, cartooned, scanned, photographed or photoshopped pretty much everything you'll come across in these pages. I'm basically a poet who likes making things - I hope you find something here to divert you. Let me know what you reckon.

SURF N TURF

In early June I started work on the Surf N Turf project – a collaboration with Orchestras Live, London Sinfonietta and composer Fraser Trainer. We spent a week developing poems and songs with Year 6 at Shotley Primary School, including a visit to the HMS Ganges Museum (Shotley was a prominent naval base for most of the twentieth century). I'm now working with Year 6 pupils at Colneis Primary School in Felixstowe, developing poems to be set to music for a performance at Languard Fort on Saturday 4 July.

SCHOOLS OUT! POETRY ON THE RADIO

I'm poet-in-residence on BBC Radio Norfolk's Roy Waller Show and our next poetry natter will be on Tuesday 21 July. With the summer holidays upon us, what better theme than 'School Days' remembering those six long weeks of mooching around - come up with a poem on that subject, email it to me and I might read out the best ones on the show.

ONE MAN SHOW LATEST

Since the autumn I've been working on a one man show - Ducks, Trains & Other Tracks - as part of the Escalator Live Literature scheme. On Friday 8 May I premiered a 20 minute sample of the show at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival - a sample of the show will appear here shortly. More info about Ducks

I came across a man on a train with a lemon tree and began to worry for the safety of tree & lemon and if it would make it home in one piece...