Pebbles, Beadnell The aim of science is the discovery of truth while the aim of literature is the production of pleasure. A. E. Housman There is a moral as well as material truth,—a truth of impression as well as of form,—of thought as well as of matter; and the truth of impression and thought is a thousand times the more important of the two. John Ruskin The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nob

There are interviews with all of the finalists from the 2020 Manchester Fiction Prize here.

The Manchester Fiction Prize is an international competition with a cash prize of £10,000 for the writer of the best short story...

Dr. Strangelove: Riding the Bomb Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than 10 to 20...

I worked at a data company for 30 years. I was a software developer, not a data scientist, but I implemented other people’s models in...

Last night I went to the launch of the first issue of the PBLJ at the Woodman pub near Eastside Park in Birmingham. The editorial and...

Glacier near Mont Blanc I got an email from my hosting company saying that in two months time (if things play out as the UK government...

Dancer interacting with a T cell Not me this time, but my partner. She's been providing scientific input to Impelo, a Welsh dance...

I've learned a lot from reading interviews with writers—The Paris Review sort of thing—but I'm not keen on talking about my own writing:...

I recently edited half a dozen stories from James Joyce’s “Dubliners” for the Read With Audrey library. Audrey is a space where people...

I have another poem from The Hours coming out in April in Banshee issue 8. The poem is about a notable, tree—a 300 year old oak in the...

I have a handful of poems from The Hours in the Winter 2018 / 2019 issue of PSR (no. 33). There are also some eco poems from Ella Duffy...

I have a couple of poems from The Hours in the January issue of Riggwelter (pages 20 and 28) which can be found here.

Second Place Rosette Second Place Rosette is a collection of poems about the customs, rituals and practices that make up life in modern...

Il regista britannico Derek Jarman alla Mostra del cinema di Venezia del 1991 by Gorup de Besanez My poem ‘5 AM: Paradise: First Light’...

At the suggestion of Holly Corfield Carr, in Spring 2018 I wrote a Book of Hours: a sequence of 24 poems, one for each hour of the day. I...

I contributed an 8 word poem to the Truth and Lies edition of The Writers' Cafe poetry magazine. I had in mind the Zen dictum: Words do...

Fire Spirit by Conor Walton One is an interesting on-line publication. Contributors can submit only one poem per issue and the new issue...

Nakaya Piccolo string-rolled (shiro tamenuri urushi) on a binakul jacket from Anthill Fabric Gallery. © Leigh Reyes. I am a fountain pen...

The North 60 contains a ton of good stuff, including poems by The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition winners and their New Poets...