Poem A Week #20: Big Heart

This one is about running, which used to be an enormous part of my life, but is something I’ve hitherto written very little about. There’s definitely a lot more to say, but at least I’m out of the blocks, as it were…

Poem A Week #5: Nightswimming (after R.E.M.)

Poem A Week #5 is about the dislocation I felt when moving house from Birmingham to Cardiff, and what I did to remedy that. It’s about ancestral memory, and the sea’s power to make a new place feel old.

‘Nightswimming’ was shortlisted for the Bare Fiction Poetry Prize.

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