I dreamed about Terry again. He was sitting in my mum's sunny kitchen, singing us Neil Diamond songs. I heard the whole of Signs,...

That Western jacket I have been obsessing about? The last time Terry wore it was at The Luminaire, in Kilburn High Road. He and Wes...

I’ve started to notice women in the supermarket queue who wear a large wedding ring on a chain around their neck. It’s a little moment of...

There are some words only poets use, in order to sound like ‘proper poets’, aren’t there? They always set my teeth on edge: Shards...

As you know, Terry’s beautiful clothes are grieving me. There is one item in particular. A lovely, Scully Western jacket: fluid, inky...

I've been wondering why it bothers me so deeply that some folks who really should have valued Terry didn't. I'm not talking about his...

A sweet couple from Enniskillen has been in touch. They talked of a Friday night in The Bridge Inn, Ramelton, Co Donegal, when Terry...

When Terry was a kid, on a week's holiday with his parents in Weymouth, his beloved gran, Ada, sent him a letter every other day. "I've...

A friend of Terry's, a DJ on the Irish traditional scene, just called me. "I've got some recordings of some radio interviews I did with...

I always called him 'doll'. "Hey, doll." I never had to explain why. He knew, of course, that it was a nod and a wink to his love of the...

Many people have used the word intense to describe me. They don’t mean it as a compliment. They're right. People have always backed away...

Often, when we wrote together, I would be at my desk at work, and Terry would be at home. He'd email: 'Wanna write a song?' He'd give me...

When Terry and I first met we spent a lot of time apart. I joked that we should get tattoos, as a sign of our belonging - perhaps half a...

I found some faded photos in the loft of Terry in Palmer Park, Reading, in the 1970s, with his first dog, Bob. He never stopped talking...

You reasses things, don’t you? Here I was thinking we weren’t smart enough. But actually we did OK. When we got together - in the first...