Some classic internet-enabled moments this week. Firstly, my post about having received a free copy of Poetry magazine was picked up by Steven Critelli who…
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Love this poem … by Alfred Lehtinen, a Finnish poet who stopped by my blog and whose blog I’m now following.
In the post today came a copy of Poetry magazine, volume 202 number 1 – yes, it’s been going for over a hundred years –…
… to actually make it onto a prizewinners list (The New Writer Poetry Prize 2012). The poem in question was one that had been through…
After my recent musings on answering the ‘what does it mean’ question, I was happy to come across this in the Letters of Ted Hughes:…
Yesterday I had the pleasure of re-connecting with a former colleague and friend from my Nike days. I recruited Tee Dobinson as a Nike Fitness…
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 use of…
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 about it…
Children love having birthdays. I quite enjoyed them myself until I got to about 30, then I went through a period of getting a bit…