Finding my tribe again on Bluesky
Like many people I’ve been humming and haaing about moving from Twitter/X to Bluesky. This week it finally seemed to be the right […]
Category: Serendipity
Advice to a poet, and a curious birthday thing
Q: Who are these poets and what do they (almost) have in common? (Answers below…) Advice lines Recently I came across this delightful […]
TS Eliot readings, Needlewriters, some crazy January stuff
Hardly seems like a week ago that Peter Kenny and I dared travel to London’s Southbank for the annual T S Eliot Prize […]
Tennis, 1976-style
Encouraged by Jayne Stanton’s marvellous ‘this is not about poetry’ blog post, I’m going off-piste today. Which is a stupid metaphor really as […]
Bit of a regroup after a challenging workshop
Ever had a bad day at the poetry workshop coalface? I think I had one yesterday. Here’s what happened and what came from it. […]
Poetry bombing
Came across this – Poetry Bombing – sewing poems into charity shop clothes – how much fun is that?? Except I think I’d be […]
Hurrah! Poem finds des res
As a poet friend once said to me, it’s always lovely when a poem finds a home. It’s true – it gives you […]
Another three great poetry blogs
Thought it was about time I shared a few more blogs, one I’ve been following for a while and two that have come […]
A real summer
Funny how a couple of weeks of sunshine makes a difference in so many little ways. For example, walking through my home town […]
Three featured blogs – writing and ‘X’
It’s funny how writing often goes together with a second passion or skill, and the ingenuity of bloggers in combining them in just […]