The Marsh - a play set in a courtyard off Lower Marsh Market in 1890 has a rehearsed reading at the Cockpit Theatre - 18th January 2026. 

My play The Marsh, set in a courtyard off Lower Marsh Market in 1890 has a rehearsed reading at the Cockpit theatre, 18th January 2026. We are hoping to roll out a full production later this year. - See The Marsh for more details and cast cvs.

I am very pleased to be running another set of creative writing workshops in the Crypt at St John's in Waterloo, London. They occur on the second Wednesday of every month, 6.30 - 8 p.m. in person in the Crypt and every fourth Wednesday on line via Zoom. They are free to participants - provided by the Bridge community project. Contact Abigail via Outreach at St Johns Waterloo dot org to book a place. 

Last year at the Waterloo Festival we worked with Sculptors from the London Group on ekphrastic poems responding to their work, we are hoping to do that again for the 2026 festival which will celebrate 'Voice'.

My first lyric essay 'The Difficult We' is published by the lovely Magma poetry magazine on their website https://magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-90/articles/the-difficult-we/

I am also featured in a new anthology exploring the horrors the US election might bring: What Rough Beast has been edited by Rip Bulkeley and Merryn Williams and is a free to download pdf book from Culture Matters. One of my two poems (Trumpet) has its very own cartoon to illustrate it. 

My latest book 'Whatsname Street' was published by Smokestack Books on August 1st 2021 and can be purchased via their website https://smokestack-books.co.uk/book.php?book=206 or the books page on this site.  It features poems exploring the history of a social housing estate...

The Poetry Parlour radio show on Soho Radio has not been happening since Covid and lockdown but you can click over to the Poetry Parlour page to listen again to the existing shows or catch up with any you missed.


Mudlark.mp3

Mudlark - text Anna Robinson - music - Jack Thomson

76219679_FAFA London Champion Tx.mp3

Recording by kind permission of You and Yours Food and Farming Awards 2014  BBC Radio 4



01 Rosa Mundi.mp3

See words to Rosa Mundi on poems page 

 
 

 Tawkin' too wAnnie - Sundee Tee time - from Spoken Word Antics on Sheffield Live

04 Track 04.mp3

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