The Journey: To the Lands Beyond Z

Here’s the introduction to a project I’ve been working on for the past five years or so, still searching through Seuss books to discover new characters and trying to get through the impenetrable wall that is Random House to get necessary permissions (so don’t spread this post too far) before trying to nail down an [...]

Read Full Post »

The Key

The second piece was the salvaged end of a first attempt. The first poem I feel much stronger for, as I do about most of the poems I write lately in which I struggle to understand how to live this new life as a father without feeling resentment at having lost something from my former, [...]

Read Full Post »

Gifts

‘love is the voice under all silence’ ee cummings
she gave me poetry books and on those unnecessary blank pages that always precede the title page, she wrote, ‘read more poetry, it’s good for you’. she was a poet, i wrote short stories. i was in love with her, but she wasn’t with me. [...]

Read Full Post »

My imaginary life

Just discovered Writers Island days after discovering Poetry Thursdays which apparently is deceased, or at least in exile, having evolved into some sort of travelling wordshow. Anyway, been reading a lot of great work on people’s blogs and am excited to have happened upon a new community of writers. Here’s my go at [...]

Read Full Post »