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  • A Guide To Getting Published in UK Poetry Magazines

    A Guide To Getting Published in UK Poetry Magazines

    I’d like to recommend this TERRIFIC booklet, A Guide to Getting Published in UK Poetry Magazines written and published by Robin Houghton at Telltale Press.  Robin kindly sent me a copy as generous thanks for a tiny contribution I made to the booklet, updated and re-issued for 2020.  Priced at only £6 (including P&P) for… Read more

  • On small acts of optimism

    On small acts of optimism

    OK, so I probably didn’t choose the best week to decide to blog a little more regularly here. There is just too much going on in the real world and, like many of you, I’m sure, I’ve been glued to the election news coming in from the United States, trying to stop myself from constantly… Read more

  • National Blog Posting Month

    National Blog Posting Month

    Inspired by writer Liz Ward, I’m going to gently join in with National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) and post a blog a little more regularly during November. I love reading Liz at her blog and I also enjoyed her collection of essays which she published in 2018. One of the reasons I haven’t been posting… Read more

  • Pop Art – online course with the Centre Pompidou and FutureLearn

    Pop Art – online course with the Centre Pompidou and FutureLearn

    Recently I’ve been dipping into FutureLearn, the online learning platform. I like the interface of FutureLearn, I find it easy to use. Most recently, a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) offered by the Centre Pompidou in Paris caught my eye, so I signed up. The MOOC is called Pop Art. It’s not so much a… Read more

  • Buying New Glasses in a Pandemic

    Buying New Glasses in a Pandemic

    I was worried – how could I not be worried, given the news reports of the rise and rise of new cases of Covid-19 across the UK? But my last eye-test was two and half years ago and my most recent pair of glasses continues to disintegrate after several repair attempts, and I have been… Read more

  • Collages of Exasperation

    Collages of Exasperation

    During lockdown, I started a new Instagram account called andothermakings where I’ve posted some of my visual poems, experiments with collage and assemblage, and various dabblings with word and image. Last week, I was provoked to add new pieces to the account, mainly because I didn’t know how else to express my exasperation with the… Read more