Summer, busy, change, decisions…
Oof! It’s a unusually busy summer this year. Family visits, a big trip away, stuff on my to-do list such as a book […]
Category: Angst
Readings, giving myself a talking-to and some early Spring cleaning
Actually January was pretty good overall. Not for the pelargoniums in the garden that have been reduced to a frostbitten mess. But our […]
Keeping track of poetry magazines: getting down and dirty
I’ve just finished trawling through hundreds of poetry magazine websites. It’s my quarterly mission: to update the spreadsheet that I send out to […]
And there goes February flying past…
This is not my favourite time of year I confess, although I love all the early signs of Spring – the first sunny […]
In the summertime when the weather is fine…
July seemed to pass in a soggy blur How’s your summer going? As I recall, I went to several concerts last month, as […]
And in other writing…
Not much new to report on the poetry writing front, except for a dozen or so poems in submission (“in submission”? Should it […]
How to be successful…enough
As I was cleaning my teeth this morning for some reason I remembered a boy called Andrew* at primary school who was always […]
Self-sabotage, womansplaining and other poetry joys
I should be preparing for a recording session this afternoon, for a Planet Poetry episode that’s going out on Thursday, but I’m feeling […]
Season of mists and new starts
Autumn creeping up, and with it, as always, changes. I’m upset about the Queen’s death, more perhaps than I thought I would be. […]
At last, some (a)live poetry events
Having missed three Hastings Stanza meetings due to a choir commitment, next month I’m so looking forward to workshopping with everyone again around […]