Every now and then, poet friend Jo generously offers up her lovely, sunny top floor for a few of us to have a poetry day.…
Poetry
Month: October 2012
Children love having birthdays. I quite enjoyed them myself until I got to about 30, then I went through a period of getting a bit…
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 by subscribing…
Here’s my round up of tips from Mimi Khalvati as recorded in my notebook on Saturday…. yours to do with as you see fit! On…
Saturday was our monthly workshop with Mimi Khalvati (tips to come in next post!) I had some really useful feedback from everyone on the poem…
The Mimi Khalvati workshop notes I posted here recently went down well, so I thought I’d share with you some gems from Don Paterson. Don…
Here’s a pressing question – what sort of filing system do you favour? I love my lever arch files, with their colour-coded dividers and lovingly…
You can read this poem in Agenda Vol 46 number 3, ‘Retrospectives’.
Lots of excitement in the past week. First of all, National Poetry Day and the launch of the Frogmore Press anthology Poems from the…
Just when you thought it was safe to post that letter…