October is my favourite month, partly because it’s the start of the run-up to Christmas with all sorts of musical things to come, before then…
Poetry
October is my favourite month, partly because it’s the start of the run-up to Christmas with all sorts of musical things to come, before then…
6.30pm on Thursday evening, and I receive an email invitation to the National Poetry Competition and Ted Hughes Award prizegiving evening at the Savile Club…
Just raising my head above the parapet to report that I’m about 20k words into my book and now at the point where I have…
We huddled, we looked out for friends or people we knew, we stood around holding our tiny £5 plastic glasses of wine. But mostly we…
Tonight it’s that lovely annual poets’ jamboree, the T S Eliot Prize readings at the Royal Festival Hall. This year I thought it would increase…
Sorry for the silence lately, I’ve been under the weather and only today feeling a tad more human. Then there’s been all the Christmas stuff,…
I thought I’d post some links to poetry resources I’ve been bookmarking. I’m sure these are just the tip of the iceberg so if you…
Something of an experiment today. I love seeing those handwritten drafts of famous poems, with the crossings out and alterations, such as this version of…
Although I was delighted to hear that Antiphon is taking a poem of mine for the next issue, for a moment I had a panic because…
We’re halfway through the Ty Newydd poetry ‘masterclass’ with Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, I’m writing this at 5am because my mind won’t relax,…