Live Go Creative! Flow Practice now runs weekly at the start of the week. The session lasts an hour and is designed to give you a creative boost at the start of your working week.

If you’d like a weekly […]

Happy Holidays Creatives and Creativists!

I hope you’ll be enjoying a special and happy time over the sparkly season.

Below is a seasonal poem that my patrons won’t mind, I think, if I share more widely, t […]

Practicing mindfulness, though they would never have called it that, is something that poets have always done. And poetry readers too. Reading mindfulness poetry requires as much creative attention and presence […]

Our theme for creative flow practice this week is: How Mindfulness Optimizes Your Creative Process. Join us for morning meditation and f-r-e-e-writing practice here.

Are you looking forward to the creative […]

This week, in our Creative Flow Practice Group, we’ve been exploring The Inner Elder: What To Do and What To Drop. You can join us for daily online flow practice  (Inspiration Meditation and F-R-E-E-Writing) in o […]

My new inspirational poetry book, Allowing Now, which launches on the 25th of October, is a selection of mindfulness poetry. 

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,” Alexander Pope said in his great poem […]

Our theme for creative flow practice this week is: Creative Flexibility. Join us for morning meditation and f-r-e-e-writing practice here.

Are you looking forward to the creative week ahead? Below I map my c […]

This is a guide to poetry pamphlet competitions for indie poets. Some allow entrants from international poets; others are limited by territory. Please check the rules of the individual […]

This post is about September’s exclusive Patreon poem for patrons: Turning Point.

It is another adaptation of an ancient Irish blessing poem.

I’m creating a series of these blessing poems, that I’ll c […]

This is a comprehensive guide to recording audio poetry that will give you all you need to know to record a poem in .mp3 format for the Self-Publishing Poetry Podcast.

The first part of the post is about […]

I received two emails from readers recently about the third part of my Ireland trilogy. They wanted to know when In the Hour,  the next novel in the series, was going to publish. I took this as a sign to get a mo […]

I recently took a create date in County Wexford, the corner of Ireland where I was born and raised, and the place that I find more creatively inspiring than anywhere else in the world. It gave me this poem about […]

Once a year I take myself off for a writing retreat in Wexford, Ireland, where I was born and brought up.

It’s always a highlight of my year for me. It’s bliss to be able to focus on a single aspect of my wo […]

It’s rare for me to do one thing only but this week I’ve been enjoying a writing retreat and feeling the power of creative focus.
My Creative Week: Week 33, Q3, 2019: The Power of Creative Focus
Time to log our […]

In the poetry slot this Sunday: a poem inspired by Alan Watts’ wedding vows as read by my friend and publishing colleague Jane Friedman, author mentor, publishing columnist and one of the people I most admire in t […]

The Kiss My Genders exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre was the site for my create date this week. This exhibition was unsettling in all the right ways, as expected. What I didn’t expect was to […]

Are you looking forward to the creative week ahead? Do you know what you intend to create this week? Below is the map of my creative intentions for my author business for this week (Week 31 Q3 2019).
Our theme […]

My daughter and I took a trip to the Kiss My Genders Exhibition at The Hayward Gallery (more about this in Tuesday’s Create Date) and there was a booth playing the old pride anthem “I Am What I Am” […]

For me, this week was all about poetry and a new book decided to emerge. Below is what happened during my creative week: week 30, Q3, 2019. How was your creative week? You can share yours with us in our Facebook g […]

This week’s highlights: Digital Book World 2019 is here!; Howard Lovy interviews inspirational indie author Angelique L’Amour on curing your cancer while caring for kids and, as ever, Dan Holloway has all the lat […]