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  • Still here in June

    Still here in June

    Since lockdown started, and both of my children were sent home from their universities, which I wrote about here, I’ve had less time on my own in the house and less time to focus on my creative projects. When I wake up each morning, the first thing I do is make a mental audit of Read more

  • Spring Rain

    Spring Rain

    I’ve made a 30 second film poem for the MPT Haiku in translation workshop which I mentioned in my previous post. As my starting point, I’ve taken the haiku by Yosa Buson which Alan Cummings has ‘literally’ translated as follows: spring rain – beach’s small shells to moisten enough In my version of the poem, Read more

  • Spring is unfolding before my eyes

    Spring is unfolding before my eyes

    The always wonderful Modern Poetry in Translation magazine is running a free online Haiku translation workshop. I have made a collage poem in response to the haiku by Enomoto Seifu which Alan Cummings has translated ‘literally’ as follows: Falling blossoms Beneath, lying happily A skull Here is my collage poem which I’ve made by cutting Read more

  • Poems from the Lockdown

    Poems from the Lockdown

    Poems written during Lockdown by members of Trowbridge Stanza White Bluebells by Ginny Saunders Early, he brings a slug to bed I don’t cry out, it’s new to our zoo so welcome. It hitched a ride from a dewy glade of grass, shrunken and mucus-bound to his soft belly fur. It won’t survive the dryness Read more

  • Lockdown Week 7: Quiet and Slow

    Lockdown Week 7: Quiet and Slow

    Very little to write about this week.  Where I live, in West Wiltshire, there is a vague sense that something is about to change, possibly because of the government’s new slogan (Stay Alert!) and ahead of Boris Johnson’s broadcast to the nation tonight.  We’ve noticed more cars on the road and there seem to be Read more

  • Lists, including wrong lists

    Lists, including wrong lists

    The Discover Prompts from WordPress have stopped now.  I felt a little flurry of excited anticipation when they started up again for April but they never really lived up to my expectations, to be honest. Now they’ve gone, though,  I miss them a bit.  ‘Lists’ was one of the prompts that I didn’t actually write Read more