Poetry Day at Jo’s
Every now and then, poet friend Jo generously offers up her lovely, sunny top floor for a few of us to have a […]
Month: October 2012
It’s my birthday! Hurrah! I think
Children love having birthdays. I quite enjoyed them myself until I got to about 30, then I went through a period of getting […]
Would you pay to submit your poetry to a magazine? (Poll)
Here’s a thing. Poetry presses and magazines exist on a shoestring. Sometimes half a shoestring. I’m sure we’d all love to support them […]
More Mimi tips
Here’s my round up of tips from Mimi Khalvati as recorded in my notebook on Saturday…. yours to do with as you see […]
Power pose through that next workshop!
Saturday was our monthly workshop with Mimi Khalvati (tips to come in next post!) I had some really useful feedback from everyone on […]
Tips from Don Paterson
The Mimi Khalvati workshop notes I posted here recently went down well, so I thought I’d share with you some gems from Don […]
How’s your filing? And what’s in a (folder) name?
Here’s a pressing question – what sort of filing system do you favour? I love my lever arch files, with their colour-coded dividers […]
Robert Hamberger’s ‘Being the Sea’ (video post)
You can read this poem in Agenda Vol 46 number 3, ‘Retrospectives’.
Readings, launches, and the Carmen Rollers
Lots of excitement in the past week. First of all, National Poetry Day and the launch of the Frogmore Press anthology Poems […]
