The Valley Press Anthology of Yorkshire Poetry

  • A NIGHT AT THE LIBRARY, A NEW JOB, AUTUMN READINGS AND PUBLICATIONS

    Writing the Night Residential On Saturday 2nd November, I will be running Writing the Night Residential workshop at The Leeds Library, a beautiful 18th Century private library. As far as we know, nobody has spent the night in the Leeds Library before and this may never be done again so seize the opportunity! This event links with the…

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  • Changing Diaries

    If you switch off when writers start talking about how they fill their diaries then do click off the screen now. If you’re still here – hello and happy New Year! I’m going to start by returning to 2016. With regards to writing, that year was an exciting one for me. There was the release…

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  • Collecting flowers

    For the last two years I‘ve been working on longer pieces – putting the finishing touches to Empires of Clay and Echolocation, collaborating on the poems for the Altofts commission and the first incarnation of Corseted. More recently, I have completed another edit of my second novel. As a result I’ve written very few individual…

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