Edward Thomas’ Adlestrop one hundred years on: rural England before the First World War.
One hundred years ago today, 24th June, 1914, a train stopped for a few minutes at a small country station in the Gloucestershire village of Adlestrop. Sitting in one of the carriages…
Maya Angelou and me: The caged bird still sings.
Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) In my television days, I worked on a series of films called God Bless America (ITV) that asked distinguished American writers to make filmed essays…
Pathé Films upload Stephen Dearsley’s Brighton
Pathé Films have released their archive for us all to enjoy on-line. How great is that! I’ve always been fascinated by old films of everyday life so I was excited to…
Four have fun in Greenwich – the Ward Wood Writers hit the road.
It was a full house at the very welcoming Greenwich gallery, Made In Greenwich yesterday when I and three of my Ward Wood Publishing colleagues gave our first collective reading together.…
Come and see me and my writer friends today in Greenwich.
It’s today, folks. I’m reading from my novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love and my fellow Ward Wood Publishing writers are reading from their work too. Come along and lend us your…
Why I’m all red-faced over Noel Duffy’s new book.
I blame Noel Duffy for my red face. My friend, the Irish poet whose inspiring new poetry collection On Light & Carbon sat in my lavatory for the last couple of months begun…
Marcel Proust’s rudeness and Lazarus’ shock are the themes for my two newly published Fibonacci poems.
Maybe we don’t take madeleine cakes enough with weak black tea. I’ve only had the proper French version of these little cakes once but I can see why the French novelist…
Dawn and Dave Stacey and my poem inspired by their work in Lewes.
Capturing The Moment by Dawn Stacey I live in the small country town of Lewes, Sussex, in south east England – it’s an inspiring to place to have your home. Not…
Stephen Dearsley goes to London along with some of my poetry on an inspiring and truly literary weekend.
I was in London last Friday to read from my book, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love (published by Ward Wood) at the Polari Literary Salon at the Southbank Centre. As I was walking to Lewes…
Tonight I’m on the same bill as V. G. Lee for my first novel reading session in Brighton.
After my incarceration at home with a lung infection, I’m wrapping up against the weather and getting a taxi to Brighton’s Latest Music Bar for this evening’s Have A Word, Brighton’s rather smart literary…
On the road with Shauna Gilligan and The Writing Process Blog Tour
Shauna Gilligan My fellow Ward Wood novelist, Shauna Gilligan has asked me to join The Writing Process Blog Tour where each writer answers four questions about the writing process and then passes…
An interview with Sue Guiney about her new Cambodian novel, Out Of The Ruins
My friend and fellow Ward Wood writer, the American but London-based Sue Guiney has just published a new novel, Out Of The Ruins. We meet pretty regularly these days at either Ward Wood…
Finding poetic inspiration in Mortlake
I spent last weekend in the peaceful environment of Mortlake in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames where the occasional low flying planes reminds us that we are on the edge…
Stephen Dearsley returns to Brighton Library.
I’m not getting out of the house very much at the moment due to an annoying lung problem that means that I’m labouring under the influence of some particularly strong anti-biotics. So…




