As a poet who recently and joyfully placed the word "bosky" into a piece and who has written on The Children of Lir , a collection...

A book that certainly changed me was Albert Angelo by B.S. Johnson (1933-1973). This tale centres on the various frustrations of young male...

In House Work , Khadija Rouf evokes the seismic shock following the birth of a first child: ‘After the baby everything changed. / My body re...

The return of Literary Leicester offered an exciting line-up of well-known authors, but, for me, none more so than Howard Jacobson.   To da...

Andy West is a teacher of philosophy in prisons.  Whenever  Andy West steps into a jail, he is faced with a multitude of thoughts. He has di...

In a spirit of full and frank disclosure, I have on occasions competed against this poet in various slam poetry competitions and she has com...

It’s what we all need to know, Clark Gable. Plastic duck. What on earth? So in the true story-telling tradition of show not tell, I will sho...

What joy it must be To have companions such as these Flitting in and Out of her life Birds of every hue and tincture Her descriptions vivid ...

I have just finished reading Michael W. Thomas’s Collection of novellas and stories Sing Ho! High Cortez . It is a book I will want to read ...