Thanks for looking at this. I write highlights for the record so they're not the  most engaging reading.   Monday. The Imagine Festival at Southbank Centre (Europe’s largest combined arts centre and Read more [...]

The week started with a spread in 50th Anniversary of Sunday Times. Headlined On Their Marks, an exclusive glimpse inside the Olympic Stadium with the people who are making the games happen”. I sneaked Read more [...]

The documentary I made on Gil Scott-Heron in 2009 was a struggle. The radio producer and I did not get along. The company she worked for approached Gil about the documentary and he said he would only Read more [...]

It’s 9am on a Monday morning. I’m in the BBC studio on the drive time show at BBC Berkshire in Reading. I woke at five pm to be here. The interview is connected to Handle With Care. It’s a BBC Berkshire Read more [...]

Jake Arnott, Deborah Moggach, Bidisha William Feinnes and I are at The Pavillion Theatre tonight for The Brighton Festival. It’s my second time here in two weeks. We are reading Writing For Freedom Read more [...]

As the previous two blogs have been on this subject...... After I found my mother working for the UN in The Gambia she disappeared and transferred to Swaziland. I tracked her down again, it took three Read more [...]

I’ve returned from a weekend break in New York after a week working at Colombia College in Chicago. So far, in a professional capacity, I’ve visited the US four times: Virginia Tech, California Read more [...]

Stuff that happened this week! Though I stopped smoking for six months I started over Christmas but stopped again on 2nd January and haven’t had one since. I attend my office each day at Southbank Read more [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]