Raw Light: poetry & opinion since 2005

Firstly, I apologise for not being able to change titles listed in the sidebar. I've managed to get locked out of my blogger acount, but...

'Surely some revelation is at hand ...' - W.B. Yeats Back in late October 1998, I had lunch in Oxford with the novelist and poet M...

Okay, here's something to make those of you who know me well stare, point, and probably snort loudly with laughter. I have published...

This is just to thank everyone for their support of my self-published novel, GIRL NUMBER ONE , and let you know that, less than eight weeks ...

Girl Number One Those who know me well will agree that, as a novelist, I am a genre-hopper. I hop from one genre to another with scant...

Since a large number of my independent titles are published under Thimblerig Books, I've set up a new website where you can find all of ...

I'm delighted to announce that my first non-fiction title is now available digitally. Kindle only, I'm afraid, for those who don...

I'm thrilled to announce the publication today of FLASH BANG: my New and Selected Poems 1996-2014 . Almost twenty years in the making! ...

What do Walt Whitman, TS Eliot, Shelley, ee cummings, Thomas Kinsella, Rose Kelleher, Alexander Pope and RS Thomas have in common? Apa...

Random poetic image. Enjoy. I edited Horizon Review from 2008-10, a lively online arts magazine owned by Salt Publishing. We published ...

A Touch of Irony: Jane Holland on Stanley Plumly’s creative biography of Keats. Part of the Horizon Review Archive Project ...

I'm posting this poem from my second poetry collection, Boudicca & Co . (Salt Publishing), in response to a conversation ...

The poet W.B. Yeats, photographed by Alice Boughton, 1903. Last night, reading Cleanth Brooks' book of critical essays, A Shaping J...

I'll be reading some of my poetry tonight at the Phoenix, Exeter, for those in the area. The reading series is called UNCUT POETS. H...

Can Margerie ever escape her wrongful reputation as a courtesan? ROSE BRIDE: out now The final title in the Lust in the Tudor Court s...

She sang the song of the hare and the trees responded   She sang the song of the hare and the wind trembled She sang th...

RAW LIGHT: the magazine NOTES TOWARDS AUTHENTICITY: poetic aphorisms from Jane Holland Aphorisms, filled with the hot air of poetr...