What I’ve been reading… Kei Miller’s ‘Cartographer’
At the library I recently picked up Kei Miller’s The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet 2014), and it proved […]
Tears in the Fence: a no-tears rejection
A few months ago I sent some poems to David Caddy at Tears in the Fence. Although he didn’t take any of them […]
‘The future of poetry’ – Coffee House Poetry at the Troubadour
So, to the Troubadour last night for poetry, discussions about poetry and the big bad world of digital – a ‘colloquy’ of five […]
Some poetry magazine submissions windows now open
For behold! Some windows are now opening, namely… Agenda – opens today, June 1st – with the promise of a 12 week turnaround […]
A few poetry comp deadlines coming up
This is the post I set out to write before I got sidetracked with my last one! So enough with the musings. I […]
Thank you, Dr Upadhayay
I was one of those lucky people who enjoyed school, and whose English teachers (and I will name them, by way of a […]
Coffee-House poetry workshops with Anne-Marie Fyfe
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 […]
Bare Fiction, Marion Tracy’s new book & other news
It’s gone a bit quiet here as I’ve been preoccupied with all sorts of things – our new flat is taking shape, so […]
Andrew McMillan’s ‘Physical’
Even though we have NO bookshelves at the moment and about 40 boxes of books we can’t unpack, I had a bit of […]
A (tell) Tale of Two Collectives
I’m fortunate to be a part of two writers’ collectives, one is of course Telltale Press and the other The Needlewriters. Needlewriters is […]