It was very kind of Literature Works, the Literature Development Agency for South West England, to ask me to write about my work in community settings. You can read what I said over on their website. And here are some images from projects I’ve been involved in!
Here are some thumb-sized images of poets and performers at the packed-to-the-rafters launch of Hilda Sheehan’s debut collection, The Night My Sister Went to Hollywood (Cultured Llama, 2013), at The Platform, Swindon, on Friday, 10th May. Among the readers were poets Robert Vas Dias, Leland Bardwell, Cristina Navazo-Eguía Newton, Martin Malone and Michael Scott. […]
I haven’t posted for a while and here’s what I’ve been up to… I put together 24 poems for a pamphlet competition and it took a lot of time, deciding which poems seemed good enough and which fitted the theme. Yes, a theme. I looked again at the poems I’ve written over the last four […]
And now, the end is near ..and so I face My friends, I’ll say it clear… On 30th April I I won’t have written 30 publishable poems, of that I’m certain. But I’ve written some and certainly more than I would have done if I hadn’t signed up. I’ve loved the extra focus. It’s […]
Week 3. Poem count so far : 18 Three missing poems but no lost days because that was when I spread four years worth of poems across my sitting room floor and began to dare to believe that I might have enough poems strong enough to submit to a pamphlet competition. The extra poetry […]
Reblogged from Poetgal: The sun was shining, it was a great day for a drive and even the M25 was a breeze. So my trip yesterday to Swindon was relaxing from the start. Actually I say ‘Swindon’ but the workshop was at the Richard Jefferies Museum which turned out to be a short hop from […]
So many blogs, so little time. Interesting but extremely distracting. I’m not terribly keen on personal Poetry Blogs, ie blogs containing nothing but the blogger’s own work. No offence to anyone but the quality of poetry in many of these shows little evidence of the blogger having read much contemporary poetry. Then, again, perhaps it’s brave to […]
Reblogged from The Bell Jar: Ahoy folks. There has, inevitably, been a huge falling off in the number of people writing a poem a day for National Poetry Writing Month – but my cockles are warmed tremendously by the poems that are still rolling in, in response to my daily prompts on Facebook and Twitter. […]
I’d be lying if I said that NaPoWriMo Week 2 has run smoothly. Margaret Thatcher died on Monday and my timelines have been ablaze with articles, opinions, debates, anecdotes and rants. It’s been a distracting week. Personally, I wasn’t a fan of Thatcher or Thatcherism and the news of her death and the ensuing brouhaha […]
Here is the first of my weekly NaPoWriMo updates. I won’t be posting all 30 poems (30?! *gasp*) on this blog – maybe one or two – as I’d like to keep them available to send to magazines and competitions. I’m very grateful to Carrie Etter for suggesting I take part in this month-long poetry […]
