I’ve finally made it to the pages of my local newspaper, the Sussex Express, who have decided to run a “human interest” piece on the imminent publication of my novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love. It’s always interesting to see…
I’ve been writing recently about a weekend I spent early this month traveling around the Kent coastline. In previous blogs I’ve described my visits to Whitstable, Broadstairs and Margate and today I’ll bring the series to an end at Dover,…
I’ve been writing about a pleasant weekend trip I took earlier this month around the coast of Kent in the UK. After Whitstable and Broadstairs, I visited another well-known Kentish seaside resort, Margate which now houses Turner Contemporary, a handsome…
It’s now not just officially Autumn but my garden here in Lewes UK agrees. It has decided to prove that Autumn can be every bit as colourful as Summer and, this year, it looks better than ever. I’m enjoying the…
I was at the the Poetry Society’s Poetry Café in Covent Garden, London on Friday for a poetry event hosted by my publishers, Ward Wood Publishing. I’d never been there before thinking that it might be a rather forbidding environment…
Last weekend, I spent some encouraging and depressing time in London. Encouraging because I was attending two terrific events and two great London institutions – Tate Britain and the National Theatre. Depressing because both places were putting on work by…
Yesterday, I wrote about my trip to the great little town of Whitstable. It was a few weekends ago, when summer was still with us here in the UK and I was on a weekend jaunt around the coast of…
I am writing this with the central heating turned on at home in Lewes, UK. It’s a rainy day and it is difficult to understand how only two weeks ago I visited the Kent seaside harbour town Whitstable on a…
Private Chris MacGregor, 24 Pictures speak louder than words. These powerful portraits by photographer Lalage Snow show British soldiers before, during and after their eight month tour of duty in Afghanistan. What a difference a year makes. What a difference…
Over the weekend I received two copies of Cinnamon Press’s latest anthology, Reaching Out – a book of poetry and short stories which contains one of my poems, Home Movie. It felt good handling these rather smart paperbacks and it…