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  • Writing poems about flowers #writerinschool

    Writing poems about flowers #writerinschool

    This week I took Alice Oswald’s book Weeds and Wild Flowers in to St Gregory’s Catholic College, Bath, where I’m working as Writer in Residence. I was prompted to do this by Sarah Westcott’s gorgeous poem about snowdrops Fair Maids of February which was a winner in this year’s Cafe Writers Competition judged by Liz Read more

  • A few copies of my pamphlet available

    A few copies of my pamphlet available

    Please let me know if you would like to buy one of the remaining copies of my poetry pamphlet The Misplaced House published by tall-lighthouse in November 2014.  If you send an email to josephinecorcoran13@gmail.com,  I will send you a PayPal invoice by return.  The price is £5 which includes P&P (UK only). Read more

  • Very short crime stories: #writerinschool

    Very short crime stories: #writerinschool

    I brought in some crime flash fiction to St Gregory’s School where I work one day a week as writer in residence and the students loved reading, talking about, and writing their own very short crime stories.  These were Year 8 and Year 9 students, aged 12 – 14, with a variety of different literacy Read more

  • Keeping a poetry reading journal

    Keeping a poetry reading journal

    Dashing off a quick post to try to keep to my weekly blog plan as part of the Poet Bloggers 2018 Revival Tour.  I’m knee-deep in old notebooks this week, as I flounder inside the messy and muddy quagmire that is my poetry manuscript.  I’ve spent the past two days holed-up inside my house, as Read more

  • Towards a poetry collection

    Towards a poetry collection

    I had my very first real life meeting with Jane Commane from Nine Arches Press on Friday.  Nine Arches is based in the Midlands and I live in West Wiltshire, on the border of Somerset in the west of England, so we met in the cafe of the Friends House, by Euston Station in London.   It’s Read more

  • Writing poetry with secondary school students: using cut ups #writerinschool

    Writing poetry with secondary school students: using cut ups #writerinschool

    As I mentioned before, I liked the collage feel of both Anthony Wilson’s notebook posts and Julie Mellor’s post about Cubomania, in which Julie cut up blocks of text and placed them together in a random way to create new poems.  With this in mind, I started a new term at St Gregory’s Catholic College, Bath, Read more