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  • Primers Poets reading in Trowbridge

    Primers Poets reading in Trowbridge

    Save the date and come to Trowbridge!  Poets Cynthia Miller, Marvin Thompson and Ben Bransfield will be reading at Drawing Projects UK on Saturday 30 September, 2-4pm.  Tickets are £5 and available here. New Voices in Poetry selected by Jacob Sam-La Rose and Jane Commane The three poets, selected by Jacob Sam-La Rose and Jane Read more

  • Too tired to blog

    Too tired to blog

    There are a few things I’d like to tell you but I can hardly keep my eyes open, even at just gone nine in the evening.  I did a three hour walk this morning with my husband and daughter and I can still feel all of my muscles tingling.  It was meant to take “about Read more

  • In which I send off a poem 

    In which I send off a poem 

    This week, I’ve spent a lot of time working on one poem for a competition.  I sent it off yesterday, Saturday, one day before the deadline. I don’t know what’s made me enter more competitions this year, it’s not something I’ve ever done excessively, preferring instead to send my poems to magazines.  I suppose I Read more

  • #WeekendCoffeeShare: In which I’m not going on holiday

    #WeekendCoffeeShare: In which I’m not going on holiday

    If we were having coffee, I’d tell you I’ve been in London for a few days, with my teenage children (hardly children any more but that’s for another post) seeing family (lots of family) and two very good, longtime friends. I’d tell you the weather was warm, sunny even, actually hot, and I wore dresses Read more

  • Lunar Poetry Podcasts

    Lunar Poetry Podcasts

    There’s an excellent interview with poet and editor Rishi Dastidar at Lunar Poetry.  Rishi talks about his approach to putting together his debut poetry collection Ticker-Tape (Nine Arches, 2017) and explains how he first approached Jane Commane at Nine Arches, as well as his method of editing and ordering the poems.  He also chats about Read more

  • Ignoring blog comments

    Ignoring blog comments

    Sometimes people find a post I wrote months or even years ago, and  decide to join  a discussion or start one up.  I don’t mind this at all unless the comment is deliberately confrontational, in which case I simply ignore the remark.  Also, some of my older posts are linked to items which are no Read more