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Hi, thank you for visiting my blog. I’m in the United Kingdom and I’m a writer of poetry, short stories and plays. I shall be uploading work here for you to read, and also writing about the films, music and books that I love.

You can read my poetry here.

You can read my short stories here.

You can find me on MySpace here.

You can find me on Twitter here.

You can find me on Flickr here.

You can find me on Last.fm here.

You can find me on YouTube here.

You will see a lot of featured photography from Flickr on this blog. I do that because there is so much astonishingly talented work on there I feel the need to showcase it. If something’s good, I want to draw attention to it. I press the enter key on my keyboard excitedly and send the posts off to the world as a way of saying, “Look at this! It’s beautiful!”

I also think photography and poetry go hand in hand – they were made for each other. In fact they are siblings, they come from the same place. Sometimes, I will be inspired by a photograph to write a poem from it, and at other times, I will have a poem ready and find a photograph for it as an apt illustration. But either way, I think it’s good to match up these lost brothers and sisters with each other.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the talented photographers on Flickr who make their work available to this blog. I always take care to link the photo back to the photo’s own page on Flickr, and to make a link to the photographer’s profile. Clearly the copyright in all these photographs remains with the photographers. There is a lot of outstanding talent out there, and I’m honoured to have the chance to showcase that talent. It all deserves to be seen.

One little disclaimer: these poems are works of imagination. If I’m inspired by a photograph to write a poem, it means that the imagination of the photographer has inspired the imagination of the poet inside me. If there’s a person in a photograph and my imagination supplies an imaginative reponse, it should in no way be taken to be a comment about the real life of the person in the photo. I have no idea who these people really are, and it’s not for me to know – I don’t write down facts, I write down my imaginings. You know that disclaimer you see in a newspaper, when it prints a photo of a person next to an article and says, “Pictures posed by models”? Well it’s the same here. This is a blog of poetry and imagination, not facts and journalism.

Last month, someone at work said to me, “At the end of the day, making money is what life is all about.” I don’t think so. Life is all about making beauty, while we have the chance in a brief life before we die.

Thanks for your time.