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This site contains the best bits of my writing over the last decade or so, from journalism to opinion pieces, interviews to book reviews, reportage to poetry.

It also contains information about my books, my forthcoming work and any events I might be doing in the near future. You can browse some slightly inactive blogs, or find out more about the cultural initiative I have recently co-founded, the Dark Mountain Project.

This website will be redesigned and relaunched in spring 2011, in time for the publication of my first poetry collection, Kidland. If you'd like to be kept up to speed with developments like this, you can sign up to my mailing list.

I hope you enjoy what you find.