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  • Posts from poetry blogs I’ve enjoyed reading this week

    Posts from poetry blogs I’ve enjoyed reading this week

    I like this contemplative post by Charlotte Gann about the reasons she’s drawn to Stevie Smith’s poem ‘Not Waving but Drowning’. The poem ‘Not Waving but Drowning’ by Stevie Smith is only twelve lines long. Yet, the first time I read it, it created in my mind, for evermore, a whole world – and life story. Not Read more

  • Poet Bloggers 2018 Revival Tour

    Poet Bloggers 2018 Revival Tour

    I’m a pretty regular blogger but I have let things slip a bit recently, mostly because I’ve been busy doing other kinds of writing.  In a bid to up my game,  I’ve been kindly added to this list of poet bloggers who are trying to blog weekly in 2018. You can also add yourself to Read more

  • New Year’s Eve Musings

    New Year’s Eve Musings

    I was about to tweet a happy tweet and post a happy post about my happy year, when our washing machine broke down and our boiler stopped working.  It was eerily uncanny, as if the Fairy who stops you feeling too smug had flown into my house and sprinkled some of her glum magic over Read more

  • Best wishes to you at Christmas

    Best wishes to you at Christmas

    Dear Readers, Wherever you are, whoever you are, whatever you’re doing, whoever you’re with or not with, I’d like to send you my warmest thanks for visiting my blog, for reading what I write, for commenting or not commenting, for liking or ignoring my posts, both are appreciated, whenever it is or isn’t.  I know Read more

  • My started late, stop-start writing “career”

    My started late, stop-start writing “career”

    I’ve enjoyed these tweets from different writers who’ve shared their stories of not being straight out of the cradle when their writing received recognition.  Here are a few of them: Did an MA in Creative Writing at 52, first competition win at 54, novel out at 55, second out at 57 next year and sooooooooo Read more

  • Christmas Pamphlets from Candlestick Press

    Christmas Pamphlets from Candlestick Press

    Our poetry group in Trowbridge has been getting together for just over a year now and I’m really happy to meet up regularly with such a  lovely bunch of people!  We meet on the first Saturday of each month (2-4pm) in Trowbridge at Drawing Projects UK, right by Trowbridge train station, to read and discuss Read more