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…
Poetry
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…
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…
Although I’m currently officially blogging the Poetry Swindon Festival over at Festival Chronicle, this is my own blog so I thought I’d put any personal…
Bit of a roundup post. Last Tuesday evening at West Greenwich Library I got to hear some super poems inspired by the Mary Evans Picture…
A smooth drive to London yesterday for Anne-Marie Fyfe’s newest workshop, on the theme of clouds. As in ‘I wandered lonely as…’, or ‘from both…
Katy Evans-Bush‘s TS Eliot shortlist workshop is fast becoming an institution. Now in its sixth year, it’s a fine precursor to the Prize readings which…
As promised in my last post, here are my notes from the workshop I did on Saturday at the South Downs Poetry Festival, with Andrew McMillan. I’m…
Last weekend I was at the Troubadour in London on a Sunday afternoon for one of Anne-Marie Fyfe’s themed writing workshops. It was intense without…
Last Thursday I was at Roehampton University where I’d been invited by Principal Lecturer Louise Tondeur to talk to her Creative Writing students about Telltale…
The big news this week is that we finally completed our purchase of the new flat, and we’re now wondering what we can afford to…