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  • On Giving Things Up

    On Giving Things Up

    13 January – I’ve just found the post below in my drafts folder. I began writing it sometime late last year (I think) but didn’t hit publish. While it’s still January, although the year no longer feels new, I’ll share it. * For the first time in over 25 years I’m starting 2025 without any… Read more

  • Six/Seis by Josephine Corcoran and Lorena Pino Montilla

    Six/Seis by Josephine Corcoran and Lorena Pino Montilla

    Today, I’m sharing my poem ‘Six’, and its Spanish translation by Lorena Pino Montilla, ‘Seis’, from my zine Six Poems, written to accompany ‘Borderland’ (Walcot Chapel, Bath 29 October – 2 November) an exhibition of collage and intaglio print by Pauline Scott-Garrett responding to Donald Trump’s 2018 zero-tolerance immigration policy which enforced the separating of… Read more

  • How I made a poetry zine

    How I made a poetry zine

    A quick post in connection with my previous post about making a zine, since a few of you have asked. I searched ‘how to make a zine’ on the internet and found this handy post by Niina Pollari and Nitsuh Abebe on the KickStarter News Archive. I also messaged Sophie Herxheimer and she pointed me to her… Read more

  • Poetry, art, and translation, in collaboration

    Poetry, art, and translation, in collaboration

    Recently I’ve taken a detour from my slow-burning fiction writing (mentioned in a previous post) and dipped back into poetry to collaborate with artist Pauline Scott-Garrett, and Spanish tutor and film programmer Lorena Pino Montilla, on a poetry project. For some time, Pauline’s art has engaged with issues surrounding human dislocation, displacement and exile, most… Read more

  • Just to say…

    Just to say…

    I’m still here, beavering away with pen and notebooks, typing up multiple drafts of assembled words which might pass as ‘stories’ (or, more accurately, beginnings of stories) and printing them out to re-write and edit, collecting many reams of paper in the meantime. In 2020, my aim was to write fiction again, rather than poetry,… Read more

  • World Book Night 2024 – In Praise of Birds

    World Book Night 2024 – In Praise of Birds

    My thanks to artist, writer and publisher Jeremy Dixon for sharing the open callout from WBN2024 and WBN United Artists for a postcard exhibition organised by Sarah Bodman and Linda Parr at The Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England (UWE). The theme for WBN2024 is In Praise of Birds. WBN United… Read more