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  • How to Make a Poem: free online course

    How to Make a Poem: free online course

    A super-quick post to say that I’m enjoying this course, How To Make A Poem, provided by the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University via FutureLearn. Helen Mort, Michael Symmons Roberts and Martin Kratz are the main educators  – they feature in videos and in written materials.  Here is some blurb from the site about what Read more

  • One month until my book is published

    One month until my book is published

    My poetry book is being published this year, did I mention that?  (of course I’m joking – I know I’ve mentioned it here, here,  and here – and possibly a few more places as well).  I don’t tend to think of myself as a last minute kind of person but I am still tinkering with Read more

  • St Gregory’s students read at Bath Festival

    St Gregory’s students read at Bath Festival

    I am so proud of the young poets who took to the stage to read their work on the outdoor stage in busy Southgate, Bath, on Saturday, 19th May for Bath Festival.  There is a lovely write-up and a few pictures on the school blog. Read more

  • St Gregory’s Students successful in Live Canon Poetry Competition

    St Gregory’s Students successful in Live Canon Poetry Competition

    I had a splendidly happy day at The Greenwich Theatre in London last Saturday for the Live Canon Children’s Poetry Competition Prize Giving Show.  I went up on the train from Wiltshire with one of my great-nieces, Hannah.  When we arrived, the theatre foyer was awash with Haiku Balloons, cartons of fruit juice, a poetry Read more

  • My book is available to pre-order from Nine Arches Press

    My book is available to pre-order from Nine Arches Press

    My book What Are You After? is now available to buy direct from Nine Arches Press.  I am very happy to have received wonderful endorsements from two poets whose work I admire enormously. Rebecca Goss says of my collection: Josephine Corcoran’s fine debut reflects upon the personal and political with imaginative flair. A poet who Read more

  • Using Rebecca Perry’s ‘Wasp’ and Brian McCabe’s ‘Seagull’ in a poetry workshop — #writerinschool

    Using Rebecca Perry’s ‘Wasp’ and Brian McCabe’s ‘Seagull’ in a poetry workshop — #writerinschool

    I’m back at St Gregory’s Catholic College, Bath, for my final term as Writer in Residence and I thought I’d mention two poems which students have particularly enjoyed. Both are about creatures  – one about a wasp, and one about seagulls.  The students loved reading the poems and they’ve written brilliant poems in response.    Read more