Sestinas – your opinion please!
So what do we think of sestinas? A fun exercise? A thankless exercise? A beautiful form best used sparingly? Hackneyed tell-tale sign of […]
Month: February 2013
Ted Hughes on ‘the problem with writing directly of recent experiences’
I’ve just finished reading The Letters of Ted Hughes (Faber 2007 edited by Christopher Reid). There is so much in this book that […]
Brighton vs Forest: the result
It was hot stuff last night in the basement of the Poetry Cafe. I was just about ready to pass out in the […]
Reading at the Poetry Cafe this evening
Six of us from the Brighton Stanza are reading this evening alongside six Forest Poets (Waltham Forest) in a ‘Stanza Bonanza’. I don’t […]
Gut feeling
Confession: my poem-a-day pledge has stuttered. I’ve actually been a bit ill, although there’s little evidence for it, and if I worked a […]
Writers and the fear of social media
When talking to writers I meet at workshops and readings, the question of what I do for a living sometimes gets asked. And […]
What Ted said when asked ‘what does it mean’
After my recent musings on answering the ‘what does it mean’ question, I was happy to come across this in the Letters of […]
Poem-a-day, Days 3 – 4
Dear Reader For a minute I thought I was struggling already, but the Guardian came to the rescue, or rather whoever it was […]
Setting myself a new challenge
After a chat with a wonderful poet friend yesterday I had a bit of a lightbulb moment (albeit over a couple of […]
Poems we read and talked about last night
There may only have been four of us at the Stanza reading group last night but we had plenty to talk about. The […]