First lines. Ack! It’s worse than a job interview. You have 2 seconds to make an impression. Or something like that. Do you […]
What a great week. An excellent Bonfire Night, President Obama re-elected, and then I get an email with the subject line ‘Congratulations from […]
Poet friend of mine and soon-to-be-blogger Jo Grigg mentioned she had been reading The Best British Poetry 2012 so I invited her to write […]
I love the way you can come across a poetry blog that’s new to you and then suddenly two more jump out – […]
Every now and then, poet friend Jo generously offers up her lovely, sunny top floor for a few of us to have a […]
Children love having birthdays. I quite enjoyed them myself until I got to about 30, then I went through a period of getting […]
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 […]
Here’s my round up of tips from Mimi Khalvati as recorded in my notebook on Saturday…. yours to do with as you see […]
Saturday was our monthly workshop with Mimi Khalvati (tips to come in next post!) I had some really useful feedback from everyone on […]
The Mimi Khalvati workshop notes I posted here recently went down well, so I thought I’d share with you some gems from Don […]