Getting all Elizabethan, new writing and emerging from the gloom
I’m not sure what it’s taken but I’ve started writing again. Not a great outpouring, but something. Maybe it’s been the eclectic reading […]
Category: Books
Musings on Mantel, comps deadlines and a lovely Rock Rose
And so it goes on Life has settled into a gentle daily routine, namely breakfast (in the garden most days until this cold […]
Abegail Morley’s ‘The Unmapped Woman’
I’ve recently had sight of Abegail Morley’s new collection The Unmapped Woman. To read it is to be drawn into a mystery of […]
Tending seedlings & taking comfort from ‘wee granny’
I hope you’re well in body and spirit. If you’re anything like me you’re trying not to overdose on news and focus instead […]
As the world moves online
Wow, things are changing so quickly it’s hard to believe – for example, how people are getting themselves online – to teach, to […]
At least Spring isn’t cancelled
There’s something about the sun coming out that puts a positive spin on everything. I’ve even taken to going for a bit of […]
New update to the UK poetry mags submissions list. Also Spring coming soon.
Yesterday I sent out the latest update to the magazines subs list, which if you’re on my mailing list you should have received, […]
Free Verse at Conway Hall
Up to London yesterday for the The Poetry Book & Magazine Fair aka Free Verse, at a new time of year (February rather […]
A chilled start to the year
January 15th and I’m just getting round to my first post of the year, something that would have concerned me a bit in […]
Ah! The business of poetry blogging
Oh no! It’s been a few weeks since my last post, and yet Matthew Stewart has still generously kept me on his list […]