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Blog/ 03/10/202402/10/2024

On National Poetry Day: getting autumnal, Medieval women, currently reading

medieval women exhibition at the British LIbrary

An blog update for National Poetry Day! To celebrate, not only have I just recorded an interview with the immensely talented Tishani Doshi […]

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audio/ 12/08/2024

A finale, a winning poem and some forthcoming readings

Art atop the Lingotto building in Turin

A few hot days of summer are here, yay! We had a dip in the sea this morning at a secret location, keeping […]

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Blog/ 19/06/202419/06/2024

New poem up at Ink, Sweat & Tears

I’m very pleased that Helen Ivory chose my poem ‘I’m looking through a lattice of magnolia’ for Ink, Sweat & Tears recently. It’s […]

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Angst/ 03/06/202404/06/2024

Keeping track of poetry magazines: getting down and dirty

I’ve just finished trawling through hundreds of poetry magazine websites. It’s my quarterly mission: to update the spreadsheet that I send out to […]

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Blog/ 29/05/2024

Subs, poddie, choirs & a greenhouse

Leiden

When you login to your blog and see there are 16 updates required it can only mean one thing  – it’s been a […]

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Blog/ 21/04/2024

Two new poetry collections I’m enjoying

sunset on Albir beach, Costa Blanca

Look what arrived for me while I was away on a yoga-vegan-retreat in Spain (yup! That’s where I took this photo!) – Snow, […]

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Art/ 19/03/2024

On performing ekphrastic poems, Poetry Book Fair etc

poetry book fair 2020

I’m not sure I’ve ever really celebrated World Poetry Day, which was apparently adopted by UNESCO in 1999 with the aim of “supporting […]

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Angst/ 21/02/2024

And there goes February flying past… 

Eastbourne beach february 2024

This is not my favourite time of year I confess, although I love all the early signs of Spring – the first sunny […]

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Art/ 09/01/2024

All shall be well

detail of Nativity facade bronze door, Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

I know, I know – not that Julian of Norwich quote again, I hear you say. But it’s the start of the year, […]

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Art/ 12/12/2023

Look to the future now, it’s only just begun

seventies xmas dec

Ah, Christmas. Busy busy. I still haven’t made a nice door wreath but when it stops raining I’ll be up the garden gathering […]

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