In the last 18 months or so, Kuli Kohli and I have spent a lot of time ‘away with the birds’ watching wild birds and running 10 poetry...

What makes me happy? Walking in the countryside near my home, to be brief. I try to do this two or three times a week for my health and...

Nature poetry & the environment Writing poetry about the British countryside has long been an obsession and staple of English poetry....

About four years ago I started to think about how best Offa’s Press could extend its range of poets and further draw on the common...

Finding their Voices “‘City Voices’ is 20 years old? I can’t believe it,” a friend commented to me recently. I can’t believe it either...

The phrase ‘in the sticks’ has long been a commonplace to describe those living in the countryside, possibly through no choice of their...

A few weeks ago a German poet and editor wrote to ask if I had any ‘spring’ poems to contribute to an anthology he’s putting together....

In the middle of March things started to look worrying. By the third week of the month the country was locked-down to try to deal with...