Assorted Poems

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Thu, 18/07/2024 - 21:07
Some news! I have a new book of poems for children coming out in a couple of months – Let Sleeping Cats Lie. It’s a collection of poems about pets (dogs, cats, goldfish, chinchilla, guinea pigs, snakes, budgies, rabbits, blue whales etc). I say it’s for children but it’s also suitable for grandchildren and, who…
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Thu, 01/02/2024 - 03:53
Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. Unless a leap year is its fate, February hath twenty-eight. All the rest hath three days more, excepting January, which hath six thousand, one hundred and eighty-four.
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Wed, 21/06/2023 - 18:31
Today is set to be agreeably alliterative across an assortment of areas although the occasional metaphor may cause some faces to cloud.  Idioms will be coming down like stair rods in northern regions, while the south may experience the odd outbreak of similes, like an unexpected shower of arrows.  In coastal, littoral, and seaside areas,…
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Sat, 01/04/2023 - 00:46
for my new shows, for reasons which remain unclear to me. Here’s a brief update on what’s what. A few shows have now sold out: Belfast, Bristol, Corsham, Liverpool (but a new show has now been added), Otley, Painswick, Pocklington. And tickets are disappearing fast for: Banbury, Brighton, Buxton, Colchester, Kendal, London (2 dates), Milton…
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Fri, 11/06/2021 - 00:03
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on here. Sorry about that. Or maybe it’s a good thing. Opinions may vary. Anyhow, I have managed to publish a couple of new books since my last post. Quite how this happened, I don’t know. In January, my new collection ‘Alexa, what is there to know…
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Thu, 20/01/2022 - 22:22
I’m delighted to receive some advance paperback copies of my book ‘Alexa, what is there to know about love?’. It publishes on 3rd Feb and is available to pre-order. I’ve taken a photo of it next to a plant because that’s what book bloggers sometimes do if a cup of cappuccino is unavailable. It’s available…