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  • Ideas for National Poetry Month

    Ideas for National Poetry Month

    April is National Poetry Month in the USA and it’s also when NaPoWriMo takes place. Regardless of where you live, here are some ideas for getting more involved in poetry during April.  If you develop any of these ideas into posts, leave a link to your blog in the comment section. read a poem a day keep Read more

  • Blogging for Winchester Poetry Festival 2016

    Blogging for Winchester Poetry Festival 2016

    Hot on the trails of my post about the joys of poetry festivals, I’m happy to tell you that I will be the official Blogger at this year’s Winchester Poetry Festival which will take place October 7 – 9. I will be posting my Festival Blogs on this site, as well as tweeting poetry snippets Read more

  • Translating poetry

    Translating poetry

    I really enjoyed reading this post by Paul Stephenson about how he approached translating lines from a Jacques Brel song and incorporating them into a new poem ‘The Disposal.’  This is one of four wonderful poems Paul wrote about being in Paris last November during the terrorist attacks, published at The Compass an excellent online magazine. I Read more

  • In praise of poetry festivals

    In praise of poetry festivals

    I haven’t been to that many (Swindon, Reading, Winchester, Aldeburgh, to be exact) but, so far, I’ve enjoyed all of them.  Hearing poets read their own work reminds me of hearing my favourite tunes at a live concert. The anecdotes you hear between poems are also, usually, very interesting and entertaining and often offer insights into Read more

  • A Self-Help Book for Poets

    A Self-Help Book for Poets

    As I mentioned before I’ve been on a ‘sending off poems’ spree recently so I’m now enjoying a lull in activities and catching up on some reading. This book (How (Not) to Get your Poetry Published, HappenStance Press, 2016) has had me gripped for the last few days.  I bought it for several reasons: I think it will be Read more

  • Guest Blog: Anita Taylor talks about establishing a centre for drawing and contemporary art at Bridge House in Trowbridge

    Guest Blog: Anita Taylor talks about establishing a centre for drawing and contemporary art at Bridge House in Trowbridge

    Originally posted on The Arts in Wiltshire: Vestiges, Anita Taylor installed at Drawing Projects, Bridge House Drawing is both a sophisticated and vital means of thinking and communicating, and is readily accessible to all. As a primary visual language, essential for neurological development and enhanced communication and expression, drawing is perhaps as important as the… Read more