Ukrainian Air Defence And Defiance – Article Written And Filmed in Kyiv Dec 2022

In November 2022 I rented an apartment in Kyiv. I didn’t stay in the press hotel, instead I lived like … More

The Virtual Focus Group — Articles For Nonprofits Series

Another recent post on Bloomerang. Seven tips to get the most from supporter feed back.

Taking Care Of Your Most Important Gift This Christmas — Your Volunteers

Part of the articles to nonprofits series. 7 Tips to look after every nonprofits greatest resource — their volunteers! An … More

Brighton — Without Words

To celebrate the launch of the Facebook page for Light-on-light I published this short Film of Brighton. Created in Spring … More

The Unlikely Story Of My Book Becoming A Bestseller!

Sea Sores began with writing about daily life in my home town on the south coast of England, around 2015 … More

Opposite The Mansion’s Temple

Video poem filmed down Queens road Brighton Page 29 of the book “Sea Sores – A Brightonian Book“. Written about … More

Blood And Bone – Snow And Verse.

A reading and video piece about my Grandfather. One of my favourites from the book. Using the deep snow and … More

Love Endures – A Reading And A Reflection

The quote is from a longer piece about my grandparents who both passed away some ten years ago. They appear … More

Inside Always Song

Is a spoken word adaption from the Book. Page 58 of ‘Sea sores – a Brightonian Book.’ Available on Amazon … More

Sea Sores – A Brightonian Book –And a Dogged Dream.

Sea Sores as a concept was hanging around my neck for a long time. The idea originated as a book … More

Brain Itch

And here I am as guilty as the next. A handful of inches separate the vocal chords from the thought … More

Lucent – Spoken Word Film – Indianapolis

Lucent concerns one of my first jobs working as a cleaner at the tender age of 16. A friend and … More

It Was Meant To Be Immense – Video Poem

It was meant to be immense – Spoken Word adaptation from the book. Page 112 of the ‘Sea sores – … More

Rumpjack – A Fireside Ghost Story

Chapter one – The Triangle. A short (pre final edit) story about the first encounter with the spirit called RumpJack. … More

Enter The Untold – Video of Flight into Mexico And a ‘Poem’ Written Enroute.

Enter the untold – Doodle of a love poem‘ written on the back of an envelope while leaving Granada and … More

Nectarines And Cigarettes – N J Wood – Brighton. From Sea Sores the audio book available on Audible.

In my experience when ‘where am I?’ Changes to ‘where are we?’ You no longer need ask the question..Nectarines and … More

Default By Love – New Poem. Recorded And Filmed in Granada – Sept/Oct

Written as hypothetical advice to my eldest nephew – Max, as he now turns sixteen. . Thank you to anyone … More

A Hundred Parts Scattered – P14 of ‘Sea Sores – A Brightonian Book.’

✓#1 New release early July 2020 in the British and Irish contemporary literature category on Amazon.com (U.S) Children are haunted … More

“Sea Sores” The Book Is Launched

Available in most countries on Kindle and in a large number of places in Paperback “Sea Sores – A Brightonian … More

Time And Time Again – Spoken Word Film By NJW

In this video I explore the idea that sometimes fortune smiles on you and keeps smiling on you even when … More

Brighton’s West Pier – Spoken Word – By Seasores – N J W

I have penned more lines about the abandoned West peir than any other structure and it still looms large in … More

Getting To The Meat Of Why I’m A Vegetarian.

I can’t tell you what an animal thinks when making eye contact with a human, but when I look into … More

Most Miracles Go Unpunished – Spoken Word Poem.

On a clear night in the Pyrenees the skies are dark and crowded with stars. One evening last November I … More

Embers in ash

A new beauty emerges in the husks of wild flowers at the end of summer.

Meme 6

I stand beside a wilderness, and tonight she’s as wild as she gets.
She’s all mine – all her distance, all her depths.

Scenes from Great Movies and Adaptations that Resonate – part one.

A movie – like a song – is an artform that can become a wormhole, taking the viewer back to the place and time they first watched it.

The effect it has on us can be so powerful, that certain characters or individual lines seem spoken for us personally. They reflect a truth in our hearts or desires, that we ourself were either unaware of or unsure how to articulate.

Meme 4.

‘It turned out the future had a hard time understanding, and didn’t have much to do with me anymore. The future was a hard fought lesson – that all you can do and know it was worth the effort, is make someone else’s loneliness a little less obvious.’