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Look what I found! Virginia Woolf’s ‘A Writer’s Diary’

… Fourth Impression (1965) with a foreword by Leonard Woolf. Hogarth Press! Original dust jacket bearing Vanessa Bell’s design! I found it at […]

Blog/ 16/06/2019

Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic came through the post from the Poetry Book Society, swathed in accolades. Looking at the title my first thought […]

I’m just updating the quarterly poetry magazines submissions windows list, but it won’t be going out for a couple of days, so just […]

Blogging and writing have been a bit off my radar lately as I am still struggling with a back problem which makes sitting […]

Blog/ 19/05/2019

I’m not sure where the month has gone – somewhere out the door together with the gardening, the yoga and the Spring days […]

Blog/ 30/04/2019

I first met Jan Heritage at the house of the late and much missed Jo Grigg. Jo was the coordinator of the Brighton […]

Blog/ 11/04/2019

It seems as if class and regional differences are very much to the fore at the moment. No surprise there I suppose, nor […]

Blog/ 01/04/2019

During my mini-retreat in Cork I dug out a number of old as-yet-unfinished or unpublished poems to see what I could breathe new […]

The rest of my week at the Cork Poetry Festival was brilliant – I want to say that right away as a few […]

It’s day 3 and I’m settling into my Cork Poetry Festival experience. Yesterday and today I’ve spent the morning writing and reading. Afternoons […]