Magazine Moment (27): Australia

Dartmoor Pony

We have been so busy moving house (an ongoing process) that my writing time has temporarily diminished. However, I received a package today from NSW, Australia, containing FreeXpresSion for September 2011, Vol. XVII - Issue No.9, ed. Peter F. Pike. The magazine incorporates the International Poetry Xpressions column prepared by Catherine Lee Clarke. This issue contains six of my poems ...

• Elegy for Idris Davies [55/2001]  
• Monte Testaccio: Mound of Potsherds [ 53/2003] 
• Weddell Seal at the Ice Edge  [29/2010]
• Isabella Tiger Moth greets the Woolly Bear Caterpillar [42/2009] 
• Dartmoor: the Call of the Wild [10/2000] 
• Velvet Shadows in Venice: 'The Stonemason's Yard' [1727-8] by Canaletto [2/2004]

I have now had poems published in UK, Romania, USA, India and Australia.

Magazine Moment (26): Dolphins in Danger

In contrast to Bottlenose Dolphins in some other places, these are free to enjoy life off the Scottish coast, 2011

My poem about the plight of some Bottlenose Dolphins has just been published in issue 156 of Reach Poetry (ed. Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling, Indigo Dreams Publishing Ltd).

You can find more here about dolphins in peril.

You can see more 'happy' dolphins here. 

I apologise for the recent intermittent nature of my posts. We are in the (slow but busy) process of moving house ...