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  • Goss and O’Brien reading at Transatlantic Poetry

    Goss and O’Brien reading at Transatlantic Poetry

    Something to look forward to this coming Sunday, 31st August – Rebecca Goss and Dan O’Brien will be reading as part of the Transatlantic Poetry Series.  Details here.  The reading starts at 8pm BST / 3pm EDT / Noon PDT. Both poets have sent work to my poetry site, And Other Poems.  Rebecca’s poem ‘Repossession’ is  here and her Read more

  • I’ve added this blog to Bloglovin’

    I’ve added this blog to Bloglovin’

    Follow my blog with Bloglovin This is just to say that you can follow my blog using the Bloglovin’ Reader if you’d like to. You can click the link above and I’ll add a widget in the sidebar once I work out how to do that. There’s more information about adding your blog to Bloglovin’ Read more

  • Get ready for another #LossLit evening.

    Get ready for another #LossLit evening.

     Lose yourself all over again.  Join in with #LossLit.  Tweet your creative responses to do with ‘loss’. It’s been two weeks since writers Kit Caless and Aki Schilz, co-creators of#LossLit on Twitter and Storify,  talked to me about this exciting and innovative project which invites and curates submissions of tweet-sized micropoems and microfictions to do Read more

  • Postcard from Spain.

    Postcard from Spain.

    I’m just back from a week in southern Spain with my family.  As well as swimwear and sundresses, I packed my notebooks, pens, draft poems and plenty of reading material, including these two books by Vicki Feaver.  Vicki was kind enough to send two new poems from her forthcoming collection to my poetry blog, And Read more

  • Writing in between catching up with family.

    Writing in between catching up with family.

    It’s been two weeks since I switched off my work emails and mobile phone and promised myself I’d focus on my forthcoming poetry pamphlet.  I started the holiday in de-cluttering mode, paying particular attention to the oceans of multiple drafts of poems swimming through my house.  I know that some poets never throw any of their Read more

  • A poem at Nutshells and Nuggets

    A poem at Nutshells and Nuggets

    I’m just back from a week in Spain and I’ll blog about my travels soon. While I was away my poem ‘Candle’ was published in Nutshells and Nuggets and can be read here. Submission guidelines to Nutshells and Nuggets are here. This is a beautifully simple site  for small poems (nine lines maximum) edited by Read more