Mimi Khalvati on editing and what to bin
On Saturday I dropped back in on one of the regular workshops with Mimi Khalvati run by the excellent Lewes Live Lit here […]
Category: Writing
From first draft to publication
Something of an experiment today. I love seeing those handwritten drafts of famous poems, with the crossings out and alterations, such as this […]
Nice to end the week with an acceptance
Although I was delighted to hear that Antiphon is taking a poem of mine for the next issue, for a moment I had a […]
Is it better to write with a pen?
The Poetry Socety recently reposted this Guardian article on Facebook – Why creative writing is better with a pen – and I was […]
What we know by heart
Today’s the biggest day of the year here in Lewes – Bonfire. Not much I can say about it that will do it […]
Riordan & Share on ‘100 years of the don’ts’
Yesterday evening I was at Keats House in Hampstead listening to a Poetry Society debate on the subject of Ezra Pound’s enormously influential […]
At Ty Newydd, part 2
Here’s the longer post I promised about my week at Ty Newydd. First of all, some of the advice and sayings I captured […]
At Ty Newydd, part 1
We’re halfway through the Ty Newydd poetry ‘masterclass’ with Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, I’m writing this at 5am because my mind […]
How many times do you send out a poem?
Since my last post I had a very welcome email from Jan Fortune at Envoi to say she would take for the next […]
Waiting on, working on, poems stock-take
I’m sat here with a number of scribbled-on poems around me, trying to decide which one(s) to resume work on and which to […]