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  • The Reader Organisation

    I wrote the post below when I first started working for The Reader Organisation: There might be a slight change in focus on my blog over the next 18 months as I settle into a new part-time job as a Project Worker for The Reader Organisation.  Part-time because I’m still very much part of my… Read more

  • Two poems in Peloton, the new Templar anthology

    Two poems in Peloton, the new Templar anthology

    Hot on the heels of my fluffed-up reading in Oxford (see previous post), I drove up to Matlock Bath in Derbyshire for the launch of Templar Poetry‘s 2013 anthology, Peloton.  I say “I drove up” but in fact it was my kind and encouraging husband, Andrew, who did the driving, and our two children, Kitty,… Read more

  • A poem in The Interpreter’s House – time to try my new specs!

    A poem in The Interpreter’s House – time to try my new specs!

    I’ve been using reading glasses for a few years now.  To begin with I bought some cheap, off-the-shelf reading glasses from supermarkets and they made the world appear brighter but, increasingly, over time, my squinting, straining eyes were crying out for something more substantial.  So I visited an optician’s and ordered some properly prescribed reading… Read more

  • Hosting Two Teenagers from Palestine

    Hosting Two Teenagers from Palestine

    This week, me and my family hosted two 14-year-old girls from Palestine, visiting Wiltshire on a cultural exchange programme organised by Bradford-on-Avon Friends of Palestine. The girls are two of fourteen dancers, singers and drummers from the Hakaya Group who train at The Ghirass Cultural Centre in Bethlehem.   The Centre was set up in 1993… Read more

  • Live Poetry Readings on the Web

    Live Poetry Readings on the Web

    I’d like to alert you to a new poetry reading series, Transatlantic Poetry on Air, available to view on the internet. This is an exciting project if, like me, you live outside a big city and/or you’re sometimes unable to make it to live readings because of caring for children or others.  Let’s face it, there… Read more

  • Josephine Corcoran

    Originally posted on The Open Mouse: House   Under your body, my language of floors your belly and hips reading small dips and gradients, your fingertips writing worlds on my walls You translated television into me made my bedrooms cells at Colditz and convent cells, rooms at the Walton’s and the von Trapp mansion Now… Read more