With a real sense of summer coming to an end, I just wanted to mention a few things before August is up, and that feeling…
Poetry
With a real sense of summer coming to an end, I just wanted to mention a few things before August is up, and that feeling…
Taking a leaf out of Peter Kenny’s book, here are seven items from the imaginary newsdesk at Kenny Houghton Towers (sorry Peter – but as Picasso said…
Intro/bit of a rant etc (skip this if you’d rather go straight to The Poetry stuff) Where has the month gone? (Rhetorical question.) Why am…
This week, three books by men, all with names starting with M, all with (pretty much) monochrome cover art and three of the shortest titles…
We’ve been in Eastbourne a month. It probably sounds daft but I’ve been struck at how mild it seems to be here compared to Lewes…
Ah, National Poetry Day seems to be the unofficial kickstarter of the poetry season (is that ‘open season’)? Last week saw a flurry of competition…
I always seem to be having a moan about submissions-constipation and other niggly stuff on here but I thought I ought to share some of…
After reading Jayne Stanton’s uplifting post about all the things she’s got to look forward to and how glad she is to see the back…
I always think of January as being a bit dreary, so it tends to be the time of year I make plans for things to…
I laughed out loud at Martin Malone’s editorial in The Interpreter’s House 57 on the subject of poetry competitions. “What is wrong with us? […]…