Poems, schmoems. Couple acceptances, a bit of rejection but hey.
Well hello! I am feeling epic. Not because I’ve suddenly won some dough or got a call from Faber. No! Health update (feel […]
New reading: Magma 74 and the Laureate’s Choice Anthology
The new edition of Magma, edited by Benedict Newbery and Pauline Sewards, is dedicated to ‘work’, a subject close to my heart. It’s always […]
Look what I found! Virginia Woolf’s ‘A Writer’s Diary’
… Fourth Impression (1965) with a foreword by Leonard Woolf. Hogarth Press! Original dust jacket bearing Vanessa Bell’s design! I found it at […]
Currently reading: Kaminsky, Hickman
Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic came through the post from the Poetry Book Society, swathed in accolades. Looking at the title my first thought […]
Quick! These submissions windows close tomorrow (31st May)
I’m just updating the quarterly poetry magazines submissions windows list, but it won’t be going out for a couple of days, so just […]
Struggling a bit
Blogging and writing have been a bit off my radar lately as I am still struggling with a back problem which makes sitting […]
Roundup – current reading, events, Poet Laureate etc
I’m not sure where the month has gone – somewhere out the door together with the gardening, the yoga and the Spring days […]
New poetry magazine: Finished Creatures
I first met Jan Heritage at the house of the late and much missed Jo Grigg. Jo was the coordinator of the Brighton […]
Estuary English
It seems as if class and regional differences are very much to the fore at the moment. No surprise there I suppose, nor […]
On redrafting old material, and a welcome acceptance
During my mini-retreat in Cork I dug out a number of old as-yet-unfinished or unpublished poems to see what I could breathe new […]