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  • Kathy Pimlott and David Clarke reading at Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge

    Kathy Pimlott and David Clarke reading at Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge

    Two award-winning poets, Kathy Pimlott and David Clarke, are reading at Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge on Saturday, September 7 (2-4pm).  This event is organised by Josephine Corcoran and Trowbridge Stanza.  Everyone is welcome and there will also be the chance to read your own poems at the open-mic.  Tickets are £5 on the door.  Read… Read more

  • Collage Poems

    Collage Poems

    I’m re-sharing some of my collage poems from the recent past.  These were written for an Instagram competition (#aquietpassionpoetrycompetition) run by The Poetry School and Soda Pictures (‘A Quiet Passion’ was their biopic of Emily Dickinson released two years ago).  The judges stated that they wanted to see “poems which use the concentrated visual qualities… Read more

  • Some free online courses at FutureLearn you might like

    Some free online courses at FutureLearn you might like

    I wanted to mention two courses that have started this week.   Both are at the online learning platform FutureLearn which I find easy and enjoyable to use (for online learning, the technology has to be good, don’t you think?) and both are from Newcastle University in Australia. The first is Fairy Tales: Meanings, Messages, and Morals,… Read more

  • What I found when I read through my diary

    What I found when I read through my diary

    Sleep reports.  Notes about dreams.  Severe admonishments about time spent on endless scrolling.  Headache details. Plans for tomorrow and thinking ahead to the weekend.  Scraps of ideas. Statements about sleep requirements. Observations about what is going on elsewhere in the house. Self-congratulations on dishes cooked.  Lists of every ingredient.  Details about where in the house… Read more

  • My book is Half-Price in the Summer Sale

    My book is Half-Price in the Summer Sale

    Just to let you know that Nine Arches Press is holding a Summer Sale with many books half-price or less including What Are You After? my collection of poems which was published last summer.  🙂                 Read more

  • Pantoum Workshop! August 3 in Trowbridge

    Pantoum Workshop! August 3 in Trowbridge

    For the August meeting of our poetry group, on August 3rd (2-4pm), Trowbridge Stanza is hosting an informal, fun, informative and enjoyable workshop about the pantoum.  We’ll read pantoums, write our own, either individually or in collaboration, or both, and hold a low-key, encouraging and friendly performance at the end of the afternoon.  Everyone is… Read more