My rival Ed Reardon was back on Radio 4 last night. Must be short of money. His accurate damnation of the dying world of publishing, his rejection slips, “Where did you find this address?” and Cheltenham. What a joke. I went to Cheltenham you know. Not the girls school, the College of Arts and Technology. A [...]
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While I’m waiting for the Dettol Mould and Mildew Remover to eat into the shower tray, I thought I’d check email: Diane Abbott for Leader, Join Cath Kidston on Facebook, Live Journal Updates, Meet the New Ipod Nano With Multi… and Word Hustler Ink Have You Written A Short Story? Saturday must be Send a [...]
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Run by the Poetry Society of Great Britain, the National Poetry Competition is regarded (at least by the Poetry Society) as the most important poetry competition of them all. Which is probably true. Winning it, or even being well-placed, leads to a small but important amount of media attention. The Independent on Sunday will print [...]
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Here’s a poem from my collection What You Will See (gattopublishing.com) about Liz Dawn who played Vera Duckworth who has just been written out of the long-running soap opera Coronation Street. Queen of the Minimus An episode of the longest running soap finishes. There’s a deadly one-liner from the queen of the minimus. With [...]
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The great thing about being a full-time writer is occasionally seeing my work appear in print. In this case, Moral Purpose Poem appears in print and online in issue 139, October 2007. Martin Holroyd selected this poem way back in August out of a group of 6 I wrote way back in May. It’s not [...]
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I just posted a new podcast show. I put this show together around the two poems I’ve had published at Surprising Stories.com, and Bewildering Stories.com: The Aura Seekers, and The Righteous Wrong. I wrote them back in May. The Aura Seekers is all about self-centered people who think a lot of themselves. The Righteous Wrong [...]
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Two great ezines I love: Surprising Stories edited by John Thiel, and Bewildering Stories edited by Don Webb. They’ve just published some of my poems. They are: The Aura Seekers (June 07 version) The Aura Seekers (May 07 Version) The Righteous Wrong I am pleased with the May 07 version of the Aura Seekers, but [...]
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One reason to switch on TV at the moment is to have a ringside seat in the battle to sell cars. Not that it’s a battle between car manufacturers. All cars have a wheel at each corner, and an engine just like they did a hundred years ago. What’s new is that we are seeing [...]
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Tony “Bono” Blair is a bit confused. He believes he is the famed British Prime Minister of the same name, deposed after winning a third term. Things begin to look up for Tony when a letter arrives offering a position with McCreedie construction. Thinking he is taking over as CEO of a powerful NASDAQ company, [...]
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Tony “Bono” Blair is a bit confused. He believes he is the famed British Prime Minister of the same name, deposed after winning a third term. Things begin to look up for Tony when a letter arrives offering a position with McCreedie construction. Thinking he is taking over as CEO of a powerful NASDAQ company, [...]
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