
Numbers count in Fibonacci Poetry – and for The Fib Review’s anniversary issue.
I’m celebrating today and it’s not all about numbers. They figure strongly in writing the usually short poetry form the Fibonacci poem which is based on the so-called Fibonacci Sequence of numbers.…

And now my Fibonacci Poem Brief Encounter gets the movie treatment.
In a collaboration with the multi talented American film-maker Joseph Nussbaum, another of my Fibonacci poems has been turned into a miniature movie using the virtual world of Second Life as its…

My miniature Fibonacci poem The Music Of The Spheres becomes a movie – Wow!
I wrote a miniature Fibonacci poem five years ago on the gigantic subject of humanity’s ideas of the Universe and religion – well, there’s no need for humility if you’re writing a…

Me, Marc Bolan and David Bowie – meeting again in The Fib Review.
David Bowie and Marc Bolan in rehearsal at Granada Television in 1977. In the early years of my TV career at one of Britain’s leading independent television companies, Granada, I…

Photography – at first it was just taking pictures, then I went digital and now I discover Instagram.
I have lived long enough now to have seen a transformation in the art of photography. Not that I’d call myself a photographer, but I been taking photographs since I was a…

The Legend of The Flying Dutchman miniaturised as one of my latest Fibonacci poems.
Today I’m celebrating the publication of two more of my Fibonacci poems, Castle Walk and The Flying Dutchman, in that great specialist Fibonacci journal, The Fib Review which is published today and can be…

Silent House – first a poem, now a movie.
My thanks are due to the multi-talented Joseph Nussbaum for his film, so carefully made, of my poem Silent House. It was a great experience sharing brains with such a perceptive director.…

No pretence – hand on heart: I’m thrilled to have my Fibonacci poem nominated for The Pushcart Prize.
I’m thrilled this week to be told that I’ve been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize by American publisher Musepie Press who have been publishing my poetry in two of their journals,…

My one-eyed neighbour makes it into one of my newly published Fibonacci poems.
I’m often under scrutiny in my small Lewes urban garden but I’m getting used to it. I live next door to a one-eyed Siamese cat and, without actually being on speaking terms,…

A new poetry anthology includes one of my poems among the first fruits of Autumn.
I got my copy of a new anthology today, The Four Seasons published by Kind of a Hurricane Press in Florida, USA. I’m happy that they wanted to publish my short poem, Gardening Tips, in this…

One man and his pencil – a special relationship.
I own a number of pens, ball point, felt-tip and fountain, and they all have their function in my life. Also, a lot of my time is spent at the computer and…

Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love: A novel inspired by The Beatles, Brighton and James Joyce.
I’ve been looking at some of my answers published on-line yesterday, pleased to remember those foothill years as a novelist when I was planning my first novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love. Sometimes,…

Virtual Writers ask me to remember why I wrote Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love.
The lively online writers’ community, Virtual Writers, has asked me to do a questions and answers session about my novel Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love (published by Ward Wood Publishing). It was enjoyable thinking…

My poem On Gloucester Road and two persuasive Americans.
Wolfgang Glinka in On Gloucester Road My prose poem, On Gloucester Road, has had an interesting life so far. I wrote it after being contacted with the Moscow-based American publisher, Marco North…