A sick kitty, Arvon, podcasting and MA latest
Help! I’m just emerging from a fraught couple of weeks. Two weeks ago our cat Bobby suddenly developed a life-threatening condition. He’d only […]
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The updated poetry magazines submissions spreadsheet and my 1,000th subscriber
Stats are funny old things. Stats, data, whatever you want to call it. On their own of course, or deprived of context, they […]
Butcher’s Dog launch reading 5th June
One of the (very few) good things to have come from this whole lo****wn is being able to attend launches and readings that […]
#Blossomwatch poem by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
This morning I was looking through the National Trust news and came across the latest Spring initiative, #blossomwatch, in which they are asking […]
Drum roll please, the essay is submitted (and other news)
End of my first year on the MA Poetry & Poetics On Tuesday I submitted my Spring term essay (HURRAH!), and well before […]
On over-exposure and other poetry ups and downs
It’s been a busy few weeks. To tell the truth, I’m feeling a little over-exposed. You know how annoying it is: Poet X […]
Purgatory and the wonders (and pains) of technology
After the excitement of having my site invaded last week, and the subsequent tsunami of ‘new posts’ about ‘how to make a salad’ […]
Readings this coming week, Planet Poetry & Uni stuff
Today feels like a desk-work day even though the sun is shining outside – we did go for a long walk on the […]
Our National Poetry Library could be axed – please sign the petition
This is no exaggeration. There doesn’t to be much hope for the National Poetry Library on London’s Southbank, since the Chief Exec is […]
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 […]