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The People Disagree

How not to make things perfectly zine

Tubers

Barometer Falling

Freshly Painted Cream Walls

AI and me

Shudder

Doggerland

Chasing Flow

Quota

Metallic Screeching

drill baby drill

Recent Video Poems

Forwards

2025: Year of enough

2024 in Review: A Tepid Bath of Managed Decline

Best Music of 2024

Best Books of 2024

Three Ghosts

500 Posts: Failing in Public

Dancers

Custodians of the Gloaming

Sometimes Things Just Suck

Uncertainty

In lieu of flowers

Quick Thoughts on Sub Genres of Poetry

Redefining My Website and Whatever it is I Do

Announcing Emergence - A Poetry Pamphlet

Between Skyscraper Atolls

Going Live

Abyssal

The First Day of Mourning

Quick Dice Poetry Exercise

Always That Chimeric Skyline

Creativity lessons from Dungeons and Dragons

A Ritual

G Man

Recording

How long until your inlet valve chokes up

The Days Stack Up

Discovering My Allergy to Scallops

Pressure Drop

Goal

Vapour Whisper

When I took my mattress my duvet and their dreams

Gathering

Ego Death on the M4

Three Tips to Declutter Your Life

Churn

A Manifesto for Art as Self Care

Finding Out

The forecast sighs

2023 in Review: Personal reflections

2023 in review: Poisoning the Well

Return to Me

Lost the Path

Perseids

Better Now

The news was cancelled today

Sky Sunk

Dungeness

Our Voices in the Chaos- now Free

A Reminder to Myself

Cloud Song

As Above So Below

Ambient II

Cacophony

Shhhh

May and June 2023 Input

Another espresso shot sky commute

On Threads

Elsewhere

Between them is a canyon

Personal Thoughts on Submissions

I love walking in the woods so much Im going to change my name to Forest

Omen at Fishponds Junction

Shiny

Roaming

April 2023 Input

In these days of sushi terrorism

Recovery

Flower Moon

2023 March Input

Fever

Liminal Spaces

Almost

2022-23 Winter Input

Lights

Fly Away

The Revolution Will Biodegrade

Part Time

Midwinter

Dawn Chorus

Alchemical

2022 in Review: Personal Reflections

2022 in Review: Weaponised Nostalgia

Suspended Animation

November 2022 Input

Unwrapped

Slowing Down

Lost Levels

October 2022 Input

October's Oxidation

Resignation- A Coupling

A Small Truth

2022 August and September Input

still

Oscillations

July 2022 Input

Gradient

June 2022 Input

Midsummer

May 2022 Input

April 2022 Input

What a Racket

2022 March Input

fragmented

Reality Adjustments

Construction

2022 February Input

Monochrome Memories

2022 January Input

Accumulated Weight

Books of 2021

2021 in Review: Who knows anything anymore?

Lost to Fog

Communion

Uncertain Art

Existential Horror Disco

The Tides of Time

Cartography

Upgraded

Art as Play

Towards the Light

Free Fall

Half Awake

Falling Ash

Hiding in Embers

Rustle

Fragments of Cloud Speech

Gathering

No Neutral Stories

Beautiful Entropy

Shaped by Ghosts

Thanks, Autocorrect

The early bird catches the worm

The Power of Interlinking

Red Ink: Stuart Buck

Never Finishing

Dream Days

Do we get political now?

Unprecedented

Unclear

Generative

Red Ink: Elizabeth McGeown

Journal entry

Dawn Ritual

Pixels

Red Ink: Ankh Spice

March 2021 Recommended

Count Down to Infinity

The Date

Clarity

Guide Me Home

Emerald Swell

Free From Distortion

February 2021 Recommended

The Power of Disco

Writing Every Day

Brighter Days Ahead

Fuzz

Sky Song

No one could have predicted this

Red Ink: Liam Bates

January 2021 Links

A View From a Bridge

A Breath

Red Ink: Pascal Vine

In bloom

Hibernating

Skeleton Trees

Helix

2020: A Playlist

Call it what it is

Gradual

So Long 2020

Auld Lang Syne

Corruption

Red Ink: Damien Donnelly

Winter Woods

Circulation

Red Ink: Amanda Miller

Technical Support

Red Ink: Pauline Sewards

Red Ink: Barry Hollow

Me Me Me

Six months from now

October 2020 Links

Doodles

Welcome to C-Mart

Guest Blogs

New micro pamphlet- Refraction

Supernova

Hypergraphia

We have seen things

September 2020 Links

Autumn

Immerse

Korembi

The Garden

Productivity in a Crisis

Beyond

Rocket

Squall

Show and Tell

Half Life

Costal walks

Missed Connection

Advert Break

What we are made of

Silhouettes

Enclosed

Growing summer

Conversation

Vibrations

Silicone Song

Into the Night

Recent Poetry Books I've Enjoyed

Underwater

Off the Grid

Masks

Ocarina

Awakening

Me Elsewhere

End of the Road

Statues continued

Colston and the Myths of History

Revelations

The Sky is Damaged

Noise

Summer is here

All change

Condolences

Echoes and Edges Collaboration

The end of an era

Among the trees

May in the woods

FCIC10

Some News

Virtual workshop and a poem

First crop of the year

Upheaval

Serenity Study zine

Napowrimo 2020 Day 30- Burn

Napwriomo 2020 Day 29- Fragment

Napowrimo Day 28 - Guilt

Napowrimo 2020 Day 27- Serenity Study

Napowrimo 2020 Day 26- We Are Mostly Empty

Napowrimo 2020 Day 25- Some Advice

Napowrimo Day 24 - Ripples

Napowrimo 2020 Day 23- Erasing

Napowrimo 2020 Day 22- An Argument

Napowrimo 2020 Day 21- Confessions

Napowrimo day 20- Ritual

A Response From the Black Box

Napowrimo 2020 Day 19- The Movement of Boulders

Quarranzine

Napowrimo 2020 Day 18 - The Return

Napowrimo 2020 Day 17- Waiting

Napowrimo 2020 Day 16 - Surface Tension

Napowrimo 2020 day 15 - Late fees

Napowrimo 2020 Day 14 - Modified

Napowrimo 2020 Day 13 - Things that have lost their power

Napowrimo 2020 Day 12- How to hear the hills

Napowrimo 2020 Day 11 - Lies the television told me

Napowrimo day 10- Prospects

Dark matter

Napowrimo 2020 day 9 - Hollow Passengers

Napowrimo 2020 Day 8 - Stagecraft

Napowrimo 2020 day 7- No Trespassers Allowed

Napowrimo 2020 day 6- Symmetry

Napowrimo 2020 day 5 - Simulated

Napowrimo 2020 Day 4- Erosion

Napowrimo 2020 Day 3 - Peas

NaPowriMo 2020 Day 2 - 'I only went to a psychic for an ego boost'

NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 1- The People

Free Books

The Oracle

Quick thoughts on editing

Inside

Whirl

Resonance

Time's gone weird

Truth Bombs

Reasons to stay at home

Contributor copy

Encrypted (video)

Stillness

Hello Spring

Bristol light festival

A hobby

Humans are more than money

These Poems are Not What They Seem

Never Change Bristol

Squeamish

Skylight

Plants

Complications

Evening

Roots

Inhale

The clarity of winter

Shore

On the radio

Assorted news and links

Sirens

January sunset

Early Swim

New serial book announcement- This Was Meant to be the Future

Lunar

Bedminster Lantern Parade

2019: books of the year

2019: year of contradictions

We're here

Merry Christmas Everyone

A walk in the woods

Tis the Season

Two poems of hope

Brace brace brace

Inside my commonplace book

Christmas in Bemmie

This election

Move fast and break things

Dive

The crowd

Unreal sunrise

Accidental plagarism

Reflections

Songs for November

November

New poem at Highland Park Poetry

6 Ways to Promote Your Book

Art Vs. Reality

Rise

Winter Fog

Posters

Railway lines

Obscured

New Book Announcement- Our Voices In The Chaos

Despite it all

Illusion

Escape into Another World

Brand Ambassador

How to Be Free

Subject: My Demise

Be quiet and listen

NaPoWriMo Lessons

Napowrimo 2019 day 30

NaPoWriMo 2019 day 29

NaPoWriMo 2019 day 28

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 27

NaPoWriMo 2019 day 26

NaPoWriMo 2019 day 25

NaPoWriMo 2019 day 23

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 22

NaPoWriMo 2019 day 21

NaPoWriMo 2019- Day 20

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 19

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 18

NaPoWriMo 2019 day 17

NaPoWriMo 2019 day 16

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 15

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 14

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 13

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 12

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 11

NaPoWriMo 2019 day 10

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 9

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 8

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 7

NaPoWriMo 2019 day 6

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 5

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 4

NaPoWriMo 2019 day 3

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 2

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 1

Matter

Hunted

Making the familiar strange

Sharp Objects and genre blindspots

Starting again

Thoughts on 'Annihilation'

Resolutions

Best of 2018

2018 in Review: A Poem

Why Writers Should Exercise

Recent Published Writing

Flash Fiction: Reasons Why I Believe I Am Dying

Ten Miserable Years of Austerity

A haiku

No Such Thing as a 'True' Artist: Persistent Myths That Need To Be Retired

Upfest

The Sound of Silence

Signal Vs. Noise

The Power of Paper

Whiplash and the Dangerous Myth of the Suffering Artist

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 30

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 29

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 28

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 27

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 26

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 25

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 24

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 23

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 22

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 21

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 20

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 19

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 18

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 17

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 16

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 15

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 14

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 13

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 12

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 11

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 10

Napowrimo 2018 Day 9

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 8

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 7

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 6

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 5

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 4

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 3

Napowrimo 2018 Day 2

napowrimo 2018 Day 1

Creative Anxieties: Fear of not writing enough

30 things I don't know at 30

Making it up as you go: Twin Peaks and Welcome to Nightvale

Advice to Myself: Writing and Resolutions

Best of 2017

2017 in Review: Laughing at the Naked Emperor

Flash Fiction: The Problems of Renting

What I learned on my break

Lies, Dreaming

Taking a Break

There is No Exit: Flash Fiction

Suspend the outside world for a while: Thoughts on Glastonbury Festival

The Thief of Moons: Flash Fiction

Battle of the Ages in the Election

Dispatches from the Uncanny Valley

White Noise

A Debate: Flash Fiction

Oak Tree Manor: Flash Fiction

Everything is a story

At the End of NaPoWriMo

Jerusalem, Ambition and the Power of Ideas

NaPoWriMo Halfway through

Tourmaline: Flash Fiction

My accidental novel: Thoughts on first drafts

Jabberwocky Remixed

Distraction by Design: Observations on Television

The New Religion of Brexit

Good Boy: Flash Fiction

'Hope in the Dark' is more relevant than ever

To Forbidden Passengers: Flash Fiction

George Saunders and Normalisation

Step Away from the Internet

Alternative facts and the rule of misinformation

A Press Conference

Enduring art (Same as it ever was)

A response to Laurie Gough

Best of 2016

2016: The Year the Internet took over

Pulp vs. Perfection

November Link Round up

Podcast

Surveillance, the Investigatory Powers Bill and Remain Vigilant

Remain Vigilant

Optimism, empathy and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

What does it matter?

October Link Round Up

The importance of a creative routine

Nick Cave and music that is too difficult to listen to

'The Shock Doctrine' and the Modern World.

'With us or against us': Brexit and The Daily Mail

September Link Round up

Rediscovering poetry

A report into the spread of M3W

The Ambiguity of Captain Fantastic

August bits and bobs

Theatre and the Art of the Possible

Writing Fast and Sloppy

Stranger Things and the art of Pastiche

July Links: Summer was on a Tuesday this year

Just Walk Away: On Cynicism and Subjectivity

Free speech, Twitter and 'So You've Been Publicly Shamed'

Ponyo and Adaptation

June Links - No Politics, I Promise

Always more to learn: Thoughts on 'Wonderbook'

A short play not at all inspired by recent events

Brexit and the story we have been told

Love, not hate

A Knock on the door

Feeding my writing through a digital shredder

May Link Round-up

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

'Show Your Work!' Six weeks in

Radiohead and the importance of letting ideas gestate

Links and Things I liked in April

'Birdman', Superhero Films and Spectacle

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan- Book Review

The Work Never Stops

Newspaper Blackout Poems

Zaireeka and the live experience

Thoughts on 'High Rise'

On Writing and Publishing a Book

Marbles and Creation

Clearings