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  • One Deliberate Red Dress Time I Shone

    One Deliberate Red Dress Time I Shone

    I had wonderful time in Liverpool launching my limited edition, handstitched pamphlet One Deliberate Red Dress Time I Shone at the Open Eye Gallery. A massive thank you to writer and artist Maria Isakova Bennett, founder of the Coast to Coast to Coast project, who makes the very beautiful poetry journals for the winners in Read more

  • September and ahead: some workshops and readings

    September and ahead: some workshops and readings

    It’s been an enjoyable and busy few months since my pamphlet Love and Stones was published by Live Canon Poetry at the end of May. I feel lucky to have been invited to read in some beautiful and welcoming places where I’ve made new friends and had fun chatting all things poetry at some great Read more

  • Three poems from books in my TBR pile

    Three poems from books in my TBR pile

    I haven’t kept up with the Sealey Challenge but it has prompted me to read more poems from my TO BE READ pile, including this one, ‘Late fig’ by Clare Best from her collection, Beyond the Gate (Worple Press, 2023). It’s a concrete poem but there’s no concrete here, it’s all fig, a mid-winter gift Read more

  • New Poetry Workshops in Bradford on Avon

    New Poetry Workshops in Bradford on Avon

    I’m thrilled to be teaching some new poetry workshops at The Make Space, a dedicated learning and making space in Bradford on Avon, near the Tithe Barn. The Make Space is part of and next to the wonderful artisan shop Stone, Paper, Scissors. My first workshop runs across two weeks, on Tuesday mornings 10.30am – Read more

  • TEXTUS: in-between text and textile

    TEXTUS: in-between text and textile

    Torriano Meeting House is hosting an exhibition and community arts project, bringing together poets and artists whose work explores the entangled relationship between text and textile. Drawing on the identity of the Torriano as a meeting house, the impetus of TEXTUS is interdisciplinary conversation and collaboration. The curators envision the selected poems and artworks as Read more

  • Dipping my toe into Substack

    Dipping my toe into Substack

    This is just to say that I am experimenting with using Substack for a regular blog or newsletter. WordPress is not as easy to use as it used to be which is very offputting. I have no plans to close this site, and I will try hard not to cross-post (I have done that in Read more