Writer, editor, teacher, poet, viola player, neurotic. Interests in theology, philosophy, literature, music, and the visual arts. Studied at the universities of Oxford, London, and UEA. French and German speaker, lover of Europe, ambivalently Roman Catholic,  Londoner-in-exile, and associate editor of MONK arts magazine. Writing three books slowly. Published in various journals and anthologies. Editing a collection of essays about my father, the painter William Coldstream.

New work coming soon.

​Some examples of online work to 2020.
Interviews, by topic: 
Faith 
Music
Literature
Essays and poems:
Personal essays
Exhibition introductions
Poems - scattered liberally here and there 

Photo by Keiko Ikeuchi

    At Somerville College, Oxford, after a quartet gig. Shown here with my father's painting of Helen Darbishire