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Thanks to Alan Buckley for placing my poem We Play The Music of Food in the Highly Commended category for the Charm Poetry Prize. He writes, “This poem, with its intricate scheme of end and internal rhymes, contains some of my favourite lines from the whole competition. I don’t know why ‘the District Line loves Kew much more than Ealing’ but this poem convinced me it must be true.” You can read the competition report here.

Thanks to Stuart and Hayley at Verve for shortlisting my poem The Next Song on the Radio for their first ever Poem of the Month (April 2025).
You can read the winning poem and all the shortlisted poems on Verve’s Substack.

As part of a Winchester Poetry Festival fringe event, a few local poets have been reading poetry on a moving bus. The technique of holding the microphone with an arm wrapped around a pole prevents the poet from falling over – most of the time!

I visited Apothecary at its new venue, the former skittle alley of the Tiger Inn in Bridport. Before the event I caught up with organiser Carolyn for a chips and editing in my mobile office.