I was asked recently how and why I was drawn to poetry in the first place — rather than something like a novel. When somebody asks me that, I describe falling into it — but what does this actually mean, and how could you start? As such, this will be a development of a previous blog post where I discussed similar ideas, but I will be going into these a little bit more in depth and approaching them from a different angle. I've mentioned a few times before that I started writin

I feel happiest when I am writing, the soft tap of the keyboard, Or the flurry of my wrist as my pen meets the page. When we write, we become artists, painting a picture for our readers, a splash of colour here, and a certain direction there, A grey world becomes colourful. A chorus of experience coming together in a chorus of many harmonies singing as one In the quiet, as the chorus quells, there is a moment of contemplation. The tying of a bow on a lyrical present. There ar

Having read the interview with Jacob on his upcoming book, ‘The Dream Must Die’, by the journalist Joe Booth, so much of it resonated...