My collection A Fold in the Map is published by Salt in the UK and Jacana in South Africa You can read more about this and other publications here, along with poems, details of forthcoming readings and the odd snippet of news.
Readings - details here
Thursday 13 November 2008, Poetry and Space at Imperial College
New poems in Succour and The London Magazine and forthcoming in New Contrast and The Warwick Review
Reviews for A Fold in the Map:
The Mail & Guardian (SA)
The Times - one of Elaine Feinstein's books of the year
Meet My Father
Meet my father, who refuses food –
pecks at it like a bird or not at all –
the beard disguising his thin cheeks.
This, for a man whose appetite was legend,
hoovering up the scraps his daughters couldn’t eat.
The dustbin man, we joked.
And here he is, trailing his fork
through food we’ve laboured to make soft,
delicious, sweet. Too salty, or too tough,
it tastes of nothing, makes him choke,
he keeps insisting, stubbornly.
In truth, the logic’s clear. His very life
is bitter and the spice it lacks is hope.
He wants to stop. Why do we keep on
spooning dust and ashes down his throat?
From A Fold in the Map
and included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2009 - a collection of the best poems of the year from the Forward Poetry Prizes, with a foreword by Frieda Hughes.