I have been a Poetry School Tutor since Spring 2022. I have run both one-day courses and
10-week courses. List of previous courses here, to give some idea of my specialist subjects
and areas of interest. Poems Behaving Badly is upcoming but has sold out already.

Poems Behaving Badly: The Joy of Being Wrong on Purpose, ten-week course, 2025.

A Day in the Underworld: A Day in the Underworld: Subterranean Realms, the Classical
World and Beyond, one-day course, 2024.

“I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go on”: Pointlessness, Meaninglessness and the Poetry of the Absurd,
one-day Course, 2024

The Abandoned Necropolis: The Grotesque and Horror in Poetry ten-week course, 2023

Blank Page, Blank Mind: Joyful Refusal in the Surreal Narrative, ten-week course, 2023

The Grotesque in Poetry: Disgust Mixed with Laughter, one-day course, 2022

Dreaming Awake on the Page: Surreal Narrative Workshop, one-day course, 2022

I have taught Creative Writing at University of Birmingham and University of Salford, for both
undergraduates and postgraduates, as well as working as a mentor and tutor for private
learners of all levels.

I offer private tutoring, feedback and advice on manuscripts, pamphlet length or full
collections and bunches of poems 5+. If you can email me some details of your project and
what you are looking for, then I will get back to you with prices. I will also be offering a
discount for students and lower income.

I have specialisms in the surreal and absurd, in prose poetry, very short fictions and
experiential writing of all kinds, but I am equally happy and qualified to help with writing that doesn’t fall into these categories.