Three great blogs – poetry
It’s always nice to get those ‘congratulations, another blogger is following your blog’ emails from WordPress, and even nicer when you check them […]
Category: Serendipity
More new reading material, and some happy happenings
Some classic internet-enabled moments this week. Firstly, my post about having received a free copy of Poetry magazine was picked up by Steven […]
‘Wake’ by Alfred Lehtinen
Love this poem … by Alfred Lehtinen, a Finnish poet who stopped by my blog and whose blog I’m now following.
Unexpected bonus
In the post today came a copy of Poetry magazine, volume 202 number 1 – yes, it’s been going for over a hundred […]
Exploring new territory, one poet at a time
I’m a big fan of Dan Blank, founder of We Grow Media. Dan’s mission is to help writers build their online platform, not […]
Super excited
… to actually make it onto a prizewinners list (The New Writer Poetry Prize 2012). The poem in question was one that had […]
What Ted said when asked ‘what does it mean’
After my recent musings on answering the ‘what does it mean’ question, I was happy to come across this in the Letters of […]
View from the top
Yesterday I had the pleasure of re-connecting with a former colleague and friend from my Nike days. I recruited Tee Dobinson as a […]
Dyson vs poets
This morning I enjoyed this response to James Dyson’s dismissal of poetry… Here’s the article in Saturday’s Independent that inspired it. ‘What’s the […]
Where were the ‘Best of British’ poems first published?
Poet friend of mine and soon-to-be-blogger Jo Grigg mentioned she had been reading The Best British Poetry 2012 so I invited her to write […]