https://www.radonjournal.com/issue6/holes My poem ‘Holes’ appears in Radon Journal issue 6. The Gloster Aircraft Company produced the first Meteor jet fighter in 1943. In 1980, their landing field remained beautifully flat green expanse dotted with mysterious pieces of machinery and various works of gently decaying military architecture. The culture at the time still echoed the high-tech... Continue Reading →
My Poem ' Despoina' appears in the Winter Solstice edition of Songs of Eretz. http://www.songsoferetz.com/ I grew up near Cooper’s Hill (where the famous Cheese Rolling takes place in the spring). The hill rises 800 feet above the flat valley and like many of the hills in the area was an iron age hill fort.... Continue Reading →
My Poem ‘Ysella’ appears in Penumbra 4 – thank you S.T. Joshi for including it! ‘Ysella’ is the latest addition to a series of narrative genre poems including ‘Gate of the Gods’ & ‘Widdershin’ (published in Lovecraftiana) and the ‘Unbitten Fruit’ (published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly). The genre influences include Esteban Maroto’s ‘Wolff’ from... Continue Reading →
My Poem 'Maenad' appears in ‘A Coven of Witches’, an anthology from West Avenue Publishing edited by Heather C. Page; available in paperback and ebook formats here
At the Parting of the Way Impossible Worlds at https://impossibleworlds.net/ have published my short story, ‘At the Parting of the Way’ in their Summer 2023 issue A picaresque story set in 1692 where , alehouses are merry and life is short and weird things are happening on the moors at midsummer. Edited by Stephen... Continue Reading →
International Human Rights Art Movement have published my poem ‘Before Windmill Hill’ A few years ago, I was privileged to attend a reading by the Somali-British poet, Momtaza Mehri. Momtaza spoke about her families experience as refugees coming from Somalia and how they had found homes in various European states. The history of the British... Continue Reading →
Sharon Gal will perform ‘Ghost Song’ at the Arnolfini gallery in Bristol on 14th October – a new performance piece, visceral sound poem and incantation, responding to my poem originally inspired by her performance at Xposed Club/University of Gloucestershire on 8thDecember 2017 Song Ghost & Ghost Song appeared in Rivet Journal in 2018 The performance comprises... Continue Reading →
Publications so far 2023 Mythopoeic nature poems sometimes seem my default. Perhaps something to do with being brought up close to the countryside. Though I’ve lived in a town for 35 years now, the Cotswold landscape of my childhood still haunts me. Mythopoeic landscapes, myths we make about the land pervade our world; there are... Continue Reading →
D. F. Lewis has published an ai shifting collage triggered by his gestalt reviews of my fiction on his Nemonymous Night blog
The poems 'From the Night', 'Homecoming' and 'Seance' appeared in the 'Horrorzine' 'Kaleidotrope' published the poem 'Unbelonging' and 'Lovecraftiana' published three poems, 'Corpseseed', 'The Reefs of Ys', and 'Widdershin' in the Walpugisnacht 2022 edition.
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