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A new essay every week on SUBSTACK

2026

01 FEB – John Keats: When a light goes out…
25 JAN – Heart aches with John Keats
18 JAN – A PORTRAIT OF JOHN KEATS
11 JAN – dear john
04 JAN – JOHN KEATS: VULGAR COCKNEY

2025

28 DEC – A NEW YEAR WITH JOHN KEATS
21 DEC – CHRISTMAS WITH JOHN KEATS
14 DEC – HEADSHOTS
07 DEC – A portrait of my mother doing the recycling during the apocalypse
30 NOV – POETRY IS A Neurosis. GET WELL SOON
23 NOV – THREE TYPES OF POET
16 NOV – WHY EPIC TIMES REQUIRE EPIC POEMS…
09 NOV – HOW I NEVER BECAME THE VOICE OF A PARISIAN PERFUME BRAND
02 NOV – CLICK TO IMMEDIATELY EXIT THIS SITE
26 OCT – SMELL THIS AND FEEL EXCEPTIONAL
19 OCT – What’s the matter with you?
12 OCT – Half of what I say is meaningless
05 OCT – “I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me”
28 SEP – WhaT SKINHEAD DANNY TAUGHT ME ABOUT ART AND POETRY
21 SEP – America, I do not vaunt my love for you…
14 SEP – A portrait of a man with a flag and a ladder
07 SEP – An invocation of love and hate with an aspirin
31 AUG – Righteousness is the new hooliganism
24 AUG – All is number
17 AUG – Raindancing outside the Joy Cafe
10 AUG – There or thereabouts
03 AUG – Everything is art but not everything is poetry
27 JUL – Writing for love is not writing for nothing
20 JUL – Too many poets, not enough poetry
13 JUL – A few kinkajous for Boomer’s mother
06 JUL – You and I and us and them
29 JUN – From Shakespeare to the Shed
22 JUN – A week on green rock
15 JUN – The dead stay still
07 JUN – Artists stop where the carpet starts
31 MAY – Learning how to say goodbye…
24 MAY – I write to be forgotten
17 MAY – Knowing I’ll never reach you
10 MAY – The last illusion
03 MAY – Everything hurts
26 APR – Why I worry about Wendy
19 APR – What happens in the room
12 APR – The final curtain
05 APR – Pirates are cool
29 MAR – We need to talk about the robots
22 MAR – Back to school on Monday
15 MAR – Every time I write a newsletter a poem dies
08 MAR – A letter from the poet
01 MAR – So you wanna be a writer?