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"I want to say thank you. In February I was diagnosed with a 8mm ommental fat hernia. While I was in Chester library Read more [...]
My memoir "My Name Is Why" is available to pre-order now. The hardback is at the printers now. There are.42 days left until release date. It is already selling fast. Why not order two? Read more [...]
“The greatest threat to their lives was a spark
The sulferuous spite filled spit of diablo
So they became spark catchers. Strike.”
- excerpt from Spark Catchers
I visited my artwork “Spark Read more [...]
Let's start the day with some good news: Since my last blog on 23rd June The Home Office has granted Ezana's seventy year old mother a visa to celebrate his graduation!! She named her son Ezana after Read more [...]
Ezana Haddis of The University of Manchester was born and raised in one of the inner-city slums of Addis Ababa. He suffered epilepsy for 16 years from the age of 11 to 27. His parents didn’t go Read more [...]
The award season isn't part of a poets calendar. I was up for two awards in he mad month of May. They were the UK Laureate (five contenders) and a BAFTA award. The BAFTA entrants were Grayson Read more [...]
I have been working in the North and Republic of Ireland for over twenty years and I love the place. This last month I've read on stages in Listowell, Dublin and Borris. At the relatively new Borris Read more [...]
The poet laureate of America Tracy K Smith invited me to Princeton University. I arrived on February 15th. A melting heart from Valentines day awaited me in the square of The Nassau inn.
A Read more [...]
From top comedians to best selling authors and from an NHS manager to a Kiss FM presenter I have compiled this small list of 100 people from the UK who were fostered adopted or in children’s homes. Read more [...]
Maggie Lloyd Jones was a solicitor working in child protection/safeguarding for 30 years before retiring in Leeds in 2015. Maggie supported The Leeds Christmas Dinners in a variety of ways but in 2018 Read more [...]