We’re in the final proof checks of ‘Safe Ground’, well on course for publication by Mica Press on 25 March, 2025. This stage is indescribably exciting and I can’t wait to hold a copy in my hand.

Meanwhile there’s the Faversham Literary Festival to look forward to. I’m hosting the Poetry Hub this Saturday 22 February and notice that everything is sold out! I am scheduled to read in Faversham Guildhall at 5.30pm with Michael Bartholomew-Biggs (an excellent poet who has edited new poetry and poetry reviews at London Grip for many years) and Maggie Harris, a Guyanese poet and prose writer living in Thanet, who was awarded the Guyana Prize for Literature in 2000 and 2014 for her collections of poetry Limbolands and Sixty Years of Loving, respectively.

All three of us have new poems and old favourites to read to you.