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  • Find out more about #LossLit

    Find out more about #LossLit

    Tweet your creative responses to ‘loss’ and be a part of this new digital writing project. On Twitter recently the #LossLit hashtag has caught my eye and I’ve noticed people tweeting micropoems and microfictions to do with ‘loss’.  There’s a #LossLit evening tonight at 9pm (GMT) so I’ll be tuning in to Twitter and following Read more

  • New poem in The Morning Star

    New poem in The Morning Star

    I have a new poem online here. Thanks to editor Jody Porter.   Read more

  • Weekly update from bed

    Weekly update from bed

    I’m writing this post at 8pm on Saturday, 9th August. I’m in bed, eating an apple, there’s an oversized mug of liquorice tea on the windowsill, a pile of notebooks, pens, poetry books and magazines sinking into the mattress next to me like a silent lover. Ooo-er. We’re not long back from a 12 mile Read more

  • Announcement about And Other Poems

    Announcement about And Other Poems

    In August 2012 I started a poetry blog, an uncluttered, ad-free site, called And Other Poems. Two years, 262 poets and more than 425 poems later, And Other Poems is going to take a rest.   There will be five more posts next week so please don’t abandon ship yet. If you haven’t been following, Read more

  • Gaza: trying to do something other than cry

    Gaza: trying to do something other than cry

    You might remember that me and my family hosted two teenagers from Bethlehem last year, when we took part in a cultural exchange programme organised by Bradford-on-Avon Friends of Palestine. It was a wonderful experience for us to learn more about Palestinians and their culture and we’ve been watching recent events unfold in Gaza with Read more

  • Micropoem at Manchester Review

    Micropoem at Manchester Review

    How lovely to find out on Thursday afternoon that my tweet-sized poem ‘Picnic’ has come 2nd in #micropoem14, a Twitter poetry competition run by the Centre for New Writing, and the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, at the University of Manchester. To take part in this year’s competition, judged by John McAuliffe, Janet Rogerson Read more