Writer · Poet · Naval veteran


The sea, service, and the people caught between them.

One email a month. One true sentence.

Hemingway told himself that all he had to do was write one true sentence. Each month I send one: a single line that lodged somewhere, on a ship, in a car park in the rain, at the end of a long day, and the story of how it grew into what it became.

Each issue also carries:

  • From the writing desk: where the books stand, from Migrant: A Libyan Storm on its way to agents, to The Vastus Annals and Shattered Gates.
  • From the archive: one poem or article worth a second look.
  • First looks: covers, launch dates, and early extracts reach subscribers before anyone else.

It arrives on the first of the month. No spam, no selling your address, and every email has a one-click way out.

Past sentences live on the One True Sentence page.