I was in the new years honors list to receive an MBE and was the first visiting poet of the brand new Antrim Library in Northern Ireland. Back in England Gil Scott heron’s performance at my house, Read more [...]

In no particular order except one here are some people across the world whom I would like to say Merry Christmas to and wish a happy new year: Firstly The Journalist, Omar Kaisy and Aida Kaisy, neighbours Read more [...]

Near where I live the men who are building the Tesco convenience store buy their lunch and cigarettes from Palm 2 the local shop they intend to put out of business. It seems to me the superstore build Read more [...]

I travel deep into the South west England, through snow and ice and threats of rail and road closure, to Sheepwash and Arvon totleigh barton. Here, at a farmhouse, I am fed and watered and later Read more [...]

On Friday I arrive in Scotland at the Gothic Knockderry House Hotel on Shore road skimming loch long. Knockderry was built in the 1800’s. Further up the hill is Cove Park an international centre for Read more [...]

I’m proud to be the first commissioned poet for The Olympic park 2012. The poems will be carved into Scottish Larch that surrounds the transformer which provides and distributes electricity. There’s Read more [...]

I spoke via skype to Carlos Moore, the writer of Fela, and his partner Ayeola. We wave and smile and peer out from inside each others computer. I am interviewed at Riverside Rooms on the subject of Read more [...]

One of the appreciable factors about leaving is returning home and one of the special considerations of home is that it's a point of reference from where to travel outwards. I like the world passing Read more [...]

So I am back in England. Two things strike me. One is the frantic frenzy of force feeding fear. It is on the news. It is in the newspapers. It is on the radio. It goes thus. Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan Read more [...]