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As poet in residence at Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service, I was given a bib with the word…
I got diagnosed with bowel cancer. A blow like that leaves its mark, even after a complete recovery. If you…
The Mabinogion, then, has some fantastical and imaginative tales, and I’m especially drawn to the way it deals with loss…
I could do this, relish this. A huge moment. Everything was perfect. This was when I decided to enter the…
To write, to read — these are beautiful and slow activities, but in this part of the world – pandemics…
It was always my intention to bounce between eras and genres, like Iain Banks with and without his ‘M’. Looking…
Unplayable, my first novel for younger readers, was inspired by the need to write a bestseller as I teetered on…
In the afternoons where once I had written, I sat feeling depressed and lethargic. I tried exercise, baking, gardening and…
Of course, I got by far the better end of the deal. Shosh, you proved to be a fantastic teacher.…
More and more studies are being undertaken on how being by water, and nature in general, help thinking and mental…
I was determined to grow a thicker skin and get over the pain of rejection from fellow critique-group members —…
If somebody gave you a book token, you wouldn’t know immediately I was the one you wanted to spend it…
