Bring a brick

When you truly surprise yourself, the ripples can last a long time. In an improvisation class with Jules Munns some years ago he asked what skills or challenges we wanted to work on. I said that I kept hanging back, judging things, editing myself and that I wanted to follow my impulses and get more […]

Up Mole!

I wrote this in a season of life when it felt hard to engage in the world. At the time, I had a studio at an arts space called Old Jet in the Suffolk countryside, and I picked up a copy of The Wind in The Willows in the kitchen which inspired this poem. Like […]