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Publication date for ‘Safe Ground’: Mica Press

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Mica Press has scheduled Safe Ground, my fifth book of poetry, for publication on 25 March, 2025!

On the same day Mica Press and Irena Hill of In-words will launch Safe Ground and Michael Vince’s Legwork at West Greenwich Library in south east London. Mica writers Michael Foley, Nayma Chamchoun and Leslie Bell (Mr Mica himself) will join us to read too. You can find more about them on Mica’s website here. Irena’s poetry events are renowned for their wonderful atmosphere and her home-baked polenta cake and everyone will be welcome.

Safe Ground traces my search for safety from the Causeway Coast and Troubles Belfast to peace and a sense of home near Margate Sands where TS Eliot wrote part of The Waste Land. The shore is a significant healer in the poems and North Sea winds gust through them. I will be enormously proud to be a Mica poet, and hope you can come to celebrate with us and enjoy the depth and scale of Mica’s work. Here I am by the Mourne Wall a long time ago…

West Greenwich, London last week – photos

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Our poetry event at West Greenwich Library in south east London last week has left such a lovely glow. Everything was beautifully organised and hosted by Irena Hill of in-words.co.uk – her 59th event in a series of exquisite poetic experiences – and I am deeply grateful to have been asked to read. Huge thanks to everybody who was there. A few photos, starting with Irena and In-Words

Our poets above are Jane McLaughlin, Alex Josephy, Mick Delap and myself (with Irena in the middle)

Below with NJ Hynes and Gillie Robic

Irena’s next event is on NOVEMBER 26th at West Greenwich Library – an evening with poets who write in English while English is not their native language, she says – with Natan Barreto, Isabel Bermudez and Kostya Tsolakis (and more). Please come if you can.