My thanks to Billy Mills for this generous review of My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat: ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/six…

Have been proof-reading Forgetfulness, due out from the wonderful Shearsman in early 2026 shearsman.com/store/Ian-Seed…

Honoured to be in such company

The Everyday Marvellous coming up in September, with Stephen Sunderland Lydia Unsworth Tom Jenks Sarah-Clare Conlon, and Stuart Carlton

My new book "Jofrid Gunn" reviewed as Book of the Month at Gutter magazine! guttermag.co.uk/reviews/jofrid… Shearsman

‘who is it can see the front and back of darkness’ - Malcolm Ritchie, Mountain on Top of a Mountain (Shearsman Books, 2025) Shearsman

‘Shuffle, pick a card, read etc’ Who could resist these uniquely and perfectly packaged haiku, as discovered and translated into ‘roughly northern dialect’ by the great Steven Waling? Available from the wonderful Tom Jenks

‘It’s time to discuss depression and sadness in general, said the ghost, but first you must help me out of these overalls’ - Tom Jenks, ‘Overalls’, from Chimneys, above / ground press, 2025. Tom Jenks

Almost at the end of Mountain on Top of a Mountain… I cannot recommend it too highly. Shearsman

"Can I read you some of my poetry?"

As you might imagine I’ll not be getting paid for these columns, and I’m not sure how long Boundless will stay online. So give them a read before, and if anyone wants to pay me to carry on visiting museums and their cafes…

Discover original stories and poems in a friendly Lancaster reading group lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/national/…

The Surreal-Absurd. A brilliant anthology. Honoured and delighted to be included. Lovely to discover lots of new names, too. Huge thanks to the editors Thomas Helm, Marcus Silcock, Dr. Vik Shirley and Ben Niespodziany.

From Mercurius Press…

"notice a mangled garden fork in the cylinder wrapped around the expensive machinery ...expect to be sacked" New poetry from Mélisande Fitzsimons: littermagazine.org/2025/08/melisa…