Ray Fitzwalter, editor of Granada Television’s pioneering current affairs series, World In Action. It definitely felt like the passing of an era, hearing about Ray Fitzwalter’s death. He was a truly decent person and a wryly funny one too,…
I have lived long enough now to have seen a transformation in the art of photography. Not that I’d call myself a photographer, but I been taking photographs since I was a child and I’ve always been entranced by…
Today I’m celebrating the publication of two more of my Fibonacci poems, Castle Walk and The Flying Dutchman, in that great specialist Fibonacci journal, The Fib Review which is published today and can be found with the…
My thanks are due to the multi-talented Joseph Nussbaum for his film, so carefully made, of my poem Silent House. It was a great experience sharing brains with such a perceptive director. It’s great when that solitary poet life can…
David Bowie (1947 – 2016) I was truly amazed when I first came across an album by this man with the proudly flaunted chicken-chest and daringly challenging face makeup. I had, of course, loved Major Tom and Ziggy Stardust…
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) As some of you may know, I have been on a musical journey over the last eighteen years. I have been working my way through the history of Western Classical Music from the…
I know that the week before Christmas in the UK isn’t meant to be hot and sunny – this isn’t Australia – so there really was no reason to find the recent grey wet weather depressing here in Lewes. That…
I have a rock’n roll son called Adam Bell and, in case you’ve missed it, his band is called Octopuses and they have a new album, Yes Please, released this week… here it is, below, on my desk and, yes,…
I’m thrilled this week to be told that I’ve been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize by American publisher Musepie Press who have been publishing my poetry in two of their journals, Shot Glass Journal and The Fib Review since…
It’s Thanksgiving in the USA today so I thought I’d look through a few of my photographs taken there over the years – they are in no particular order and i’ll leave you to guess the locations. …