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

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

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

New Book Out For Christmas.

Essential elements of a smile is an unrelentingly optimist publication. The idea behind it was to round off the year … More

Spoken Word – Dragonflies

https://njwood.contactin.bio/ Page 50 of Sea sores – A Brightonian Book. Dragonflies At the hightide mark, on neither earth nor sea … 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

Blond Light – Short Film Spoken Word.

Filmed just after lockdown, on the river bank where I’d gone to take my break through quarantine in Agde. Short … 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

Is a Second Wave Coming?

Below is the link through to an article I wrote on Vocal media. I think it’s worth re-sharing, as at … More

Great Writers Series – Philip Larkin (Part Two)

Larkin was a gift from my father. Three slim volumes of his work. Their edges already yellowed from years on his bookshelf. They followed … More

Brain itch.

Bulletpoem – Can the same action be judged differently by the same audience, depending on the gender of the one … More

Great Writers Series – Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Interview 1961

Speaks for itself.

The Gas Giants – Video spoken word Poem. By n j w

the gas giants –
by n j w

the gas giants speak loud in the night
while quiet more solid bodies
go unheard in the heavens

those rocky worlds pace alone
their elsewhere eyes as far
as can be from telescope

Great Writers Series – Philip Larkin – rare 1960’s Programme with Sir John Betjeman

An excellent programme where the great poets discuss their work and we follow Philip Larkin as he recites a few of his works. Truly a gem for anyone that appreciates Larkin’s work in particular.

Embers in ash

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

Eight minutes.

It takes eight minutes
for light after leaving the sun,
to reach earth.
four hundred and eighty
seconds, give or take a few.

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.