It is National Care Leavers Week.     I’ve said before that Harry Potter was a foster child.  His status (as  fostered child) has spread like wildfire since then.  He’s one of us.     Read more [...]

From London to Hong Kong. Hong Kong to Brisbane.I snivel and cough my way over the tectonic fault lines of planet earth.   24 hours later Bill the driver meets me and the famous Haigh family at Brisbane Read more [...]

I've been Canterbury's Poet Laureate for twelve months of a thirty six month residency.  Thanks to Wise Words Festival and The Marlowe Theatre. The laureateship started in May 2017 with Warrior Poets, Read more [...]

Throughout 2018 I have been working with young people in care in Coventry. Its been a highly secretive project until now. The culmination, the high point, is a live performance, by the young people Read more [...]

Hello. I am one of five judges for The Golden man Booker Prize this year. It is a special one-off award to celebrate  50th anniversary of The Man Booker Prize and crowns the best work of fiction from Read more [...]

Time is like the weather system. It has patterns, storm seasons with electric charges. Memory. The arctic wind brushes a molten sun making of it a golden drop of frozen gold. Breath beats the window Read more [...]