So what do we think of sestinas? A fun exercise? A thankless exercise? A beautiful form best used sparingly? Hackneyed tell-tale sign of creative writing…
Poetry
Month: February 2013
I’ve just finished reading The Letters of Ted Hughes (Faber 2007 edited by Christopher Reid). There is so much in this book that I’ve found…
It was hot stuff last night in the basement of the Poetry Cafe. I was just about ready to pass out in the second half…
Six of us from the Brighton Stanza are reading this evening alongside six Forest Poets (Waltham Forest) in a ‘Stanza Bonanza’. I don’t think it’s…
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 9 –…
When talking to writers I meet at workshops and readings, the question of what I do for a living sometimes gets asked. And no sooner…
After my recent musings on answering the ‘what does it mean’ question, I was happy to come across this in the Letters of Ted Hughes:…
Dear Reader For a minute I thought I was struggling already, but the Guardian came to the rescue, or rather whoever it was who posted…
After a chat with a wonderful poet friend yesterday I had a bit of a lightbulb moment (albeit over a couple of beers, funny…
There may only have been four of us at the Stanza reading group last night but we had plenty to talk about. The poems we…