Notes from Mimi Khalvati workshop
Yesterday was the first of our monthly workshops with Mimi Khaltvati this year, and as usual I came away with plenty of new […]
Category: Writing
Lovely example from Ted Hughes’ letters
It is now 1974. At least, that’s how far I have got with Ted Hughes’ letters, through which I’m getting a stronger impression […]
How to tackle the “What does it mean?” question
“Poems need room for the imagination to engage” says Roselle Angwin in a interesting blog post on creating ambiguity in a poem, not […]
January’s off to a great start
Happy New Year! I’m particularly upbeat about 2013 – already there are lots of positive things going on in both work and play […]
Brendan Cleary workshop – drafting poems
Yesterday I was in Brighton at the Pub with No Name (which is incidentally in an area with a pub on each street […]
Brighton Stanza on top
First the good news: I got a note through a week or so ago from Paul McGrane at the Poetry Society saying my […]
So this is what happens when I sit down to write
A free evening, and it’s a couple of hours until Downton Abbey (I’ll start watching it at 9, pause it at 9.01 so […]
Workshop with Mimi Khalvati
Aren’t we lucky in Lewes? A bona fide A-list poet comes down here from London each month to offer her wisdom and help […]
Rejected but not cowed
Oh well … I kind of suspected that the stuff I sent to Poetry London wasn’t going to blow Colette Brice’s socks off. […]
Writing musings/ submissions etc
I’ve been grabbing the odd hour here and there to write while my other half watches the cricket highlights each day. I need […]