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Please enjoy reading this article from The Spectrum Magazine. https://s2.chorus-mk.thirdlight.com/file/24/qz6pWc0qBspgF-qzjogqILG_98/The-Spectrum-105-January-2021.pdf

The opening of the first story, The Rented Room, in my book of stories, The Camera Obscure, coming soon! It is commonly understood that along with a birth, a death, and a divorce, moving house is one of life’s most stressful events. I had no close, personal experience of the first three, but I wasContinue reading “A taster…”

Jordan Peele gives this classic ‘horror’ his treatment, and having seen the original previously, I think he has carried on and added to where it left off. I came out of this film with so many things to say. As usual, like with US and GET OUT, Peele leaves you with questions and thoroughly unsettled.Continue reading “Film for today: Candyman”

Well, all right, I can’t discount the fact that I have done some work over the Summer and I have been busily involved in co writing for a theatrical production – the details will be revealed shortly! I am also getting stuck in, finally, to my novel – a ghost story. More about that laterContinue reading “Back to work!”

A web waves in the warm breeze, caught between ancient wooden struts, indefensible, beneath an empty seat. It splays to breaking point;  fine-knit, like a fibre-glass veil; delicate strength resisting air. Behind, purple bell-shaped blooms bow their heads in unison, deferring to the weight of a sprinkler’s misty jet, that fans out in the shapeContinue reading “Echo”

O 6th September 2021 – I am awaiting my radio appearance on BBC Essex – my old stomping ground of Essex University. I’m going to talk about Echo, which you can read on this site. I wrote it quite a while back in the Summer of 2020, when we spent a lot of time inContinue reading “Echo – some thoughts about my poem.”

I wrote this poem right at the beginning of the Covid crisis, before the lockdowns, and when Greta Thunberg was also hitting the headlines with her excellent speeches about climate change. I had a student sitting beside me at the time, and as he worked, I jotted down this poem too. I so often doContinue reading “Westminster Bridge 2020”