The world is steaming with poetry today. Last night I went to The Parliament Building in Stormont, Belfast to celebrate the winners of...

Two poems appeared in issue 10 of Allegro Poetry Magazine, edited by Sally Long. These are the opening and closing poems of a new...

The Emigrant Woman’s Tale will be on a short tour in September at the following Northern Libraries – with support from the Community...

I am honoured and excited to be invited to give a creative writing workshop and reading of my poetry at Bellaghy. This invitation also...

Ink Sweat and Tears is an e-zine edited by the poet and artist Helen Ivory. I am honoured that she chose to publish "Howl" in this...

Click on the image to read them. Flame of Liberty is from a new pamphlet I'm working on with the title "Vertical Montage" containing all...

Christine Murray, a poet herself, published by Salmon Poetry featured my work on her poetry blog Poethead. It's great to be indexed as a...

I signed up, or I signed away my life or time or ... are there any more excuses? Sunday went well, I posted a very short one on twitter...

Wow! I went to see the "immersive play" written by Dave Kingham performed by the Accidental Theatre in Riddel's Warehouse in Belfast. An...

I signed up for the NaPoWriMo for poetry month. I will write a poem a day, although I cannot promise that I will post them all here....

Earlier in the year, Headstuff published a poem in their Revolution NOW series: Vertical appeared in the fist issue of A New Ulster as...

Colin Dardis, the editor of Lagan Online asked me to submit a poem. It was very hard to choose. Eventually, he chose Berlin from a group...

a flash story on visual verse.

I attended the Playwrights' Bootcamp organised by Accidental Theatre a couple of weeks ago. It was an amazing experience, including a day...

I received my copy in the post tdoay, with four of my poems from Red Roots. The slim volume is full of interesting poets: Lesley Burt's...

Today is the first day of spring in the Celtic Calendar. I bought my daffodil buds yesterday and they sprung into bloom overnight.

She would be 106 years old today. A heroine, not only on the screen. Her life story still fascinates. Key facts: she starred in 22 films...

Kelly Creighton, editor of the Incubator journal published one flash story of mine in issue 4 "Necrophilia" is the story of a retired...

A personal essay in the Icubator issue 7 about A Meeting with Iris Murdoch http://issuu.com/theincubatorjournal/docs/the_incubator._issue...