Wow, I felt a lot of love for RS Thomas after my last blog post. I wonder if we need more spirituality today, generally I…
Poetry
Category: Submissions
I recently came across this blog post by Naush Sabah about why we send our poems to magazines (or not). I’m in agreement with her…
News round-up time… written in haste, before the Wimbledon Men’s final… The Pod Peter Kenny and I have just wrapped up the last episode of…
It’s been a busy few weeks. Today started very well by my getting the Wordle in one – third time this year! If you don’t…
Not much new to report on the poetry writing front, except for a dozen or so poems in submission (“in submission”? Should it be “under…
Hurray! Spring is on its way! Well, the days are lengthening at least….It’s been a busy start to the year although I don’t seem to…
On a holiday Just back from a short trip to the Netherlands where the weather was spectacularly mild and dry for late October. I can’t…
So Thursday is National Poetry Day, which I shall be celebrating with my Hastings Stanza group, doing what poets do… agonising over line-breaks, commas and…
The spreadsheet of poetry magazines is forever growing, albeit slowly. Even though I’m adding perhaps eight to ten titles each quarter, there are those I…
What was I doing all last month? Mostly singing (I passed my Grade 8 with merit – hurrah!), the odd party (friends with birthdays and/or…