George Best, Miss World and Me: What better subject for my latest Fibonacci Poem?
George Best and Mary Stävin. As a youngish man in the early days of my career in television, I had the intriguing and unlikely job of having a breakfast meeting with one…
Night walking: a good way to come down after a poetry reading.
Wolfie Wolfgang reading last night Last night in Lewes, UK, there was a chill in the air and, or so I’m told, snow on the outskirts, but it was warm…
I’m returning tonight to the poetry event where I first dared to read my poems.
Lewes Arms, Lewes I’ve been asked to read at a poetry event tonight just round the corner from my house here in Lewes, UK. The splendidly anarchic Lewes Poetry is having its…
Why the 19th of January is the beginning of 2015 for this particular writer.
I know it isn’t January the First today – let me look, ah yes, it’s the 19th, well that’ll do. It feels like the beginning of the new year so give…
My Haiku poem becomes a film – a little one – and I’m delighted.
I was very happy to see a fine new animated film, Haiku, by my friend, the talented American composer and film-maker, Tim Risher (aka Joseph Nussbaum). It was exciting that it was…
The Beatle, the Cardinal, the Poet and the Prime Minister – my meetings with famous people memorialised in my newly published Fibonacci poems.
A page from the latest issue of The Fib Review This isn’t the first time that I’ve written about my Fibonacci poetry on these pages but today, I’m particularly thrilled that…
Thanks to Second Life, my forgotten poem, Sortie, ends up at the movies just in time for Halloween.
Eight years ago, I took my first timorous steps into the virtual computer world known as Second Life. It was an extraordinarily confusing experience having to create a new image…
Getting into performance mode for Needlewriters Lewes.
Yesterday reminded me of my singing days when I learned how to prepare for a performance because, last night, I was doing a reading, just down the road from my house, at…
I’m feeling great! Now when was the last time you heard me say that?
I’m feeling good today. I know that’s not headline news stuff but, actually, for me, it is. Some of you may know that I have been ill with Pulmonary Embolism, blood clots…
I’m one of three East Sussex writers booked for the next Needlewriters in Lewes.
I’m getting ready for my next novel reading and this time, very conveniently, it’s in my home town of Lewes, UK, just down the road from my house at the building…
Reading Rossetti’s poem, The Blessed Damozel, a Pre-Raphaelite moment here in Lewes.
I have been obsessing on the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882) as I reported in yesterday’s blog. Sorry about this but Rossetti’s poem The Blessed Damozel (1850), new to…
Stephen Dearsley makes it to The Huffington Post
I was thrilled this week to read a truly encouraging review in the popular Huffington Post for my novel Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love from Dr Michael Petry, the director of London’s Museum of…
Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love on the ‘Long List” for the Polari First Book Prize.
I heard this week that my novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love has been longlisted for the Polari First book Prize. It’s a real thrill to have got down to the last twelve…
The Poetry of Camden Town actually makes a difference in the “real” World.
Just before I went off on my holidays, I was at the regular monthly poetry event held by Camden-Lumen Poetry where I was proud to have one of my poems included in…




