Chewing the cud & going off-piste
A small window has opened up between sinus headaches for me to write an overdue blog post… the cold-y sinus-y stuff prevented me […]
Category: Mags & Blogs
A little tough love for poetry magazines
Today and yesterday have been spreadsheet days – visiting poetry magazines websites and trying to dig out the info that I (and anyone […]
Nature sleeps. Thank goodness for art
What is it about January? You have to trust that living things are asleep and not dead. The garden is brown and damp. […]
Notes from the sick bay
“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort” – Jane Austen (allegedly). Although she didn’t have to endure the harassment […]
Readings, decisions, fresh starts
I’m feeling very uplifted by real-life in-person poetry events. Last week in Lewes was the launch of three Frogmore Press publications: The Naming […]
Poetry Magazines submissions windows update
If you’re already on my mailing list for poetry magazines submissions information, you’ll be getting an email in the next day or so […]
Currently reading & other summery (?) things
The weather has been a bit rubbish here so I’ve been catching up on some reading and writing. Magazines tend to drop through […]
Lighthouse launch: reading a new poem and its prequel
Tomorrow evening is the online launch of Lighthouse Journal #22 in which I have a poem called ‘Let’s pretend to go shopping together’. […]
Launches, recent and forthcoming
There have been some interesting launches and other events in the last few weeks. I suppose all those books that were out last […]
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 […]