Those tips from Don Paterson again…
I was doing a bit of editing yesterday and looked back on some of the notes I’d made from various workshops, and then […]
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Post-TS Eliot Prize post, and a tale of two gaffes
The first two and a half weeks of January have been a bit of a poetry whirl (in the sense of lots of […]
January – ugh! Thank goodness for poetry events…
As the wind howls outside and the next five-day block of rain chunters towards our heads, I’m feeling very grateful for some poetry […]
The Reading List week 10: Glück, Paterson, Crowther
These pocket-sized reviews have been getting a bit long lately and that’s not good, because I start thinking “do I have time to […]
What I’ve been up to, and look ahead to Aldeburgh
Just a quick update and a look ahead to the weekend … I was excited to see the T S Eliot Prize shortlist, especially as […]
Poetry titles, aka the naming game
Earlier this week I had two tasks on the go: firstly to whip my pamphlet into shape before sending it off to the […]
Poems we read and talked about last night
There may only have been four of us at the Stanza reading group last night but we had plenty to talk about. The […]
Tips from Don Paterson
The Mimi Khalvati workshop notes I posted here recently went down well, so I thought I’d share with you some gems from Don […]
The key to writing better poetry is …
Saw a tweet about the new Arvon course list for 2012 being up. So couldn’t resist taking a look. I’m going through this […]