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While I was at All Day Sonnets in Winchester last Saturday, I had the pleasure of meeting poet, actor, and professional voice coach Kate Firth who will be running a Performance Skills Workshop at the Poetry Festival on Saturday, 8 October. Somewhat pressed for time, and thinking about my 'what's in your bag/pocket' series, I… Continue reading Meeting Kate Firth
On Saturday, 23 April I spent the afternoon at Winchester Discovery Centre which is where most of the events for Winchester Poetry Festival will take place in October. The Festival hosted 'All Day Sonnets,' a marathon sonnet reading from 10am until 5pm, open to anyone who signed up beforehand to read one of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, on… Continue reading All Day Sonnets in Winchester
This is an invitation to take part in a new blogging event 'What's in my pocket (or bag) and what does it say about me?' All you have to do is to publish a new blog post which includes an image of what's in your pocket/bag and a brief explanation about it. Link back (pingback) to this… Continue reading New Blogging Event: What’s in my pocket?
What made me: re-read a book I already had? buy a book? take a book out of the library? It started with this newspaper article, an interview in The Guardian with poet, critic and translator Michael Hofmann. I tend to buy The Guardian on a Saturday but I hadn't read the article until I noticed… Continue reading On the trail of a book purchase
Details of the line-up for the second Winchester Poetry Festival, which will run from Friday 7 October until Sunday 9 October, are now live at the Winchester Poetry Festival website. Tickets are available for Friends in person or by telephone (01962 873603) from the Winchester Discovery Centre Box Office from today, 15 April. General sales and… Continue reading Winchester Poetry Festival Programme Launched
Things have been quite slow in recent weeks as I've been looking after my husband, Andrew, who's recovering from surgery following his diagnosis of prostate cancer (and doing really well), plus it's been the Easter holidays for our two teenagers, always a mixture of chaotic delightfulness, late night taxi duty, complicated sleeping arrangements and noise.… Continue reading Slow, slow, slow-slow, slow.
A few acceptances recently, which are always pleasing (I won't bore you with the rejections). Poetry Wales got in touch to say they've held on to two poems to publish in their summer issue (I had thought they'd be in the current issue). That's fine by me, as long as they're still publishing them. (I would be… Continue reading Poetry News
Josephine Corcoran 
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