I’m grateful to start 2026 as Poet of the Month for January in The Lonely Crowd journal .

Three poems will be published from my collection ‘Exposure: war, media, democracy’ due in February from culture & democracy press.

‘Exposure’ is in two parts. The first ‘Soldiers and Civilians’ looks at the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Gaza/Israel conflict; the second, ‘Citizens and Politicians’ looks at conflicts in democracy and politics.

The Lonely Crowd has chosen ‘A Plan for the Development of Gaza’. My piece about writing the three poems will follow later this month.