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.
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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 Read more [...] 
RAFIKI, is a love story directed by Wanuri Kahiu. Rafiki was banned in Kenya but after going to court, the ban was lifted for one week in order to be eligible for the Oscars and banned again after Read more [...] 
Today at The National Army Museum there is a delegation from Ethiopia who will receive a lock of Emperor Tewdros's hair which was taken from his head by The British Army on finding he had taken his Read more [...]