December 2020
- 'Dunwich in Winter' [28-2020] has been published in A Special Place (Tuesday Poetry anthology 2020, ed. Jean Salkilld)
November 2020
- 'Travellers All' [19-2020] has been published in Star Tips for Writers #140, Winter (6) 2020 (ed. Wendy Webb)
- Joint 4th Place (Category A) in the Metverse Muse (ed. Dr H. Tulsi, India) 'Fixed Form' Roundel challenge with 'Sea Watch' [12-2019]. 'Hogmanay Blues' [6-2020]. 'The Warkworth Hermit' [10-2017], 'Winter's Knife' [12-2011], 'Unseasonal Splash' [12-2013] and 'Dragonfly Dance' [13-2013] have also been published in the journal's Diamond Jubilee isue (2020).
- 'Yesterday's Plan' [29-2020] has been published in the November issue of Indigo Dreams Publishing.
- I attended two online workshops at Poetry in Aldeburgh, 'Listening to the Coast' with Maria Isakova Bennett and 'Listening into Poetry' with Dr Mina Gorji.
October 2020
September 2020
- 'Mount's Bay' [21-2020] has been published in Reach Poetry #264, Indigo Dreams
Publishing.
August 2020
- Two poems, [19-2020] and [21-2020], accepted for publication in Reach Poetry, Indigo Dreams
Publishing.
July 2020
June 2020
- My poem, 'Spring Fever in the South of France' [3-2019] has been awarded Second Place in the Petrarchan Sonnet Fixed Form
Competition (Category A) for Metverse Muse, India. Two other poems,
'Butterfly Brooch from Raasay' [7-2017] and 'Thoughts from a Tudor Rose Garden' [4-2020] have been published in the Triple Issue 57-59
of the journal.
- My poem, 'Wildfire' [11-2020], has been accepted for 'Locked Down: poems, diaries and art from the 2020 pandemic, an
international anthology of lockdown poems' to be published by Poetry Space (ed. Sue Sims).
May 2020
- My poem, 'Elegy for Idris Davies' [55/2001], is now online here as part of the Poetry Library
Southbank Centre's digitisation of The Seventh Quarry (ed. Peter
Thabit Jones, Wales).
- I completed Jim Bennett's (most
enjoyable) PoetryKit course on 'Nature Poetry'.
- My poem, 'Eris and the Apple' [13/2020], has been published alongside artwork by Jongo Park (South Korea) on p.69 in
the 7th international eBook edition of Immagine e Poesia, edited by Huguette Bertrand (Canada) and
Lidia Chiarelli (Italy). The anthology is dedicated to Lawrence
Ferlinghetti to mark his 101st birthday.
April 2020
- My poem, 'Bound for Sicily' [19/2017], has been published in Reach Poetry from Indigo Dreams Publishing.
- I completed Jim Bennett's (most enjoyable)
PoetryKit course on 'Using Traditional Forms in Modern Poetry'.
Febuary 2020
- My poem, 'The Beachcomber' [24/2018], has been published in Reach Poetry from Indigo Dreams Publishing.
January 2020
- My poem, 'Warkworth Hermitage: a Place Apart' [29/2018], published in Reach Poetry from Indigo Dreams Publishing, was awarded
4th Place in The Box for the Readers' Vote.
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2020 Poetry Summary - here
2019 Poetry Summary - here
2018 Poetry Summary - here
2017 Poetry Summary - here
2016 Poetry Summary - here
2015 Poetry Summary - here
2014 Poetry Summary - here
2013 Poetry Summary - here
2012 Poetry Summary - here
2011 Poetry Summary - here
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2012: The Holy Place, Launch and Reviews - here
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