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  • I dreamt I won a poetry competition I hadn’t entered

    I dreamt I won a poetry competition I hadn’t entered

    I dreamt I won a poetry competition I hadn’t entered I wrote in my diary this morning and all at once it was November, month of daily blog posting, National Blog Posting Month or #NaBloPoMo.  So I am writing a blog post while the dream carries on glowing inside my mattress even though it is Read more

  • Last Few Days to Pin a Poem to the Places of Poetry map!

    Last Few Days to Pin a Poem to the Places of Poetry map!

    Just to mention that the Places of Poetry project will be a read-only site from November 1 so if you have a site-specific poem about anywhere in England or Wales that you’d like other people to read – head over to Places of Poetry and pin a poem on their map.  Here is some more Read more

  • Some feedback about Trowbridge Stanza

    Some feedback about Trowbridge Stanza

    As many of you know, I organise a monthly poetry group in Trowbridge.  We meet every first Saturday, 2-4pm, at Drawing Projects UK, an art gallery, studio space and café, next to Trowbridge train station.  Recently people have shared some tweets about Trowbridge Stanza and about Drawing Projects UK itself, so I thought I’d include Read more

  • Mid-October Notes and looking ahead to November

    Mid-October Notes and looking ahead to November

    With both of my children now at university and not that many freelance projects on the go (but probably enough, for now) I have a lot more hours to myself these days. So far in October there have been some decent blocks of time available for me to write.  Of course, that doesn’t mean I’ve Read more

  • Poetry at Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge, November 2: Guest Poet Birdspeed

    Poetry at Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge, November 2: Guest Poet Birdspeed

    Trowbridge Stanza is looking forward to welcoming  poet and performance artist Safiya Kinshasa, AKA Birdspeed, to share her work at Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge on Saturday, 2 November 2019 (2-4pm).  There will also be the opportunity for the audience to perform their own poems at the open-mic.  Tickets are £5 on the door.  More details Read more

  • Poetry responding to Climate Change: Simon Armitage

    Poetry responding to Climate Change: Simon Armitage

    I enjoyed hearing Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s poem ‘Ark’ on BBC Radio 4 this week.  The poem was written to commemorate the launch of the UK’s new polar research ship, the ‘Sir David Attenborough’. Here is a clip of Simon Armitage reading the poem: The poet Laureate Simon Armitage reads his new poem, written to Read more