The last month since leaving Canada has been a whirlwind back in London. And it’s been great to be back, mid-summer, with that cool airy sunshine that June in southern England carries with it, and which makes me glad to be home. As usual I’ve been cramming writing in...

I’m very much looking forward to being back in Toronto on 20th May, this time for a reading. I’m reading as part of the Pivot Reading series, with three local Toronto poets, whose work I greatly admire: Ben Ladouceur, Jeff Latosik, & Jimmy McInnes. Be great to...

So, today I’m sitting in a café in an unusually sunny Ottawa, Ontario. We’ve gone straight from a cold, cold winter into basking weather – 20 degrees, perfect blue sky and every shrub and tree suddenly racing into bloom. Even for someone who likes winter (when else...

At the launch reading for ‘Beetle’ at Keat’s House in London late last year, someone asked me why I’d written a collection of poetry, mostly about war, mostly set in Bosnia. Why choose Bosnia? Why now? To answer, I went back to a cold sunny morning in early Spring in...