I began writing this blog in 2011, driven by a love of music and need to have a forum for writing.

If you look at the run of posts across the years, it is obvious how prolific I was at the beginning and how much this has declined over recent years. It is not about the love of music also declining – I still listen to as much these days* – but rather a change in focus on my other writing (like here) but also significant commitments in daily life that have curtailed the time for writing/posting.

One intriguing element on this blog is the recording of stats for pageviews. I noted today it was 3.5 million! Extraoridnary. Should I be monitising this blog?

I think not. As explained today in my research into Google blogspot pageviews, these can be added to by bots, web crawlers, spam referrers. You think!?

To read Some Diurnal Aural Awe, go here

*I am unable to attend live gigs though, which is a huge personal loss…

This is an expansive collection of like-minded creative responses to the theme, and I am delighted to have contributed. My thanks to editors Peter Carlaftes & Kat Georges who used the second of my two TextArt pieces, both of which follow

~

One of my first posts on this blog when it was mainly about English teaching and education…

I am delighted to be back with The Red Ceilings Press and to announce my new poetry chapbook with them.

I am most grateful to Mark Cobley for his interest in and support of my writing, especially this chapbook at this time. It is such a pleasure to work with him.

My sincere thanks as well to Alan Baker and John Goodby for their generous and thoughtful observations on and about this collection of found poems.

For further details and to buy (with my personal thanks and to support this unique press), go here.

~

Delighted to have my TextArt poem ‘Truth Died’ in the forthcoming edition of Maintenant 20, with my thanks to the editors.