Poem: Ghostwalk

Reflection on Hiroshi Matsuoka's "Alone in a Train Car"

My short Reflection on Hiroshi Matsuoka's "Alone in a Train Car", was published in Haibun Today ,12 (3) (2018) s

Poem: St Ninian's Cave

My poem St Ninian’s Cave has been published on Writing at the Beach Hut website.

Poem: June

My poem written in June 2018 after the death of Jo Cox was published by I am not a silent poet.

Book review: Clive James "Sentenced to Life"

My review of Clive James' poetry collection Sentenced to Life was published by Wales Arts Review.

Short story "Prey"

My short-short story / flash fiction "Prey" has been publsihed by the new online journal ASP Literary Journal #1. Link here

Reading log: Dana Schwartz: Choose Your Own Disaster

Published by Grand Central Publishing


The author, Dana Schwartz, is the creator of the Twitter account @GuyInYourMFA which skewers precisely the tone of the posturing male writer type who infest Starbucks, laptops open, working on their groundbreaking novel, or rather talking about it. So I expected wit and intelligence.  I didn't expect so much emotion, or mild trauma described dispassionately.

The title refers to the structural conceit of the 'mostly true' memoir - so that each stage of adolescence and young adulthood is described as a stable state which requires a definite step to progress from. 

In practice, it can be read straight through, without all that tedious placeholding that the perils of  Choose Your Own Adventure books required.  The book is less funny but much more insightful than I expected; well worth reading.