writer and workshop facilitator
My thanks to artist, writer and publisher Jeremy Dixon for sharing the open callout from WBN2024 and WBN United Artists for a postcard exhibition organised by Sarah Bodman and Linda Parr at The Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England (UWE). The theme for WBN2024 is In Praise of Birds. WBN United… Continue reading World Book Night 2024 – In Praise of Birds
I'm thrilled to have been asked to take part in this year's West of England Festival of Textiles (WEFT) which is held biannually at Trowbridge Museum. I'll be talking about and reading poems from my pamphlet One Deliberate Red Dress Time I Shone at Trowbridge Museum on Friday, 17 May, 5.30pm - 6.45pm. Tickets for… Continue reading Poetry, Pimm’s and Punch at Trowbridge Museum Friday 17 May, 5.30pm – 6.45pm
I haven't blogged here for a while. It's partly because WordPress isn't such a great platform to blog on anymore - forgive the *moan* but it's nowhere near as easy to use as it used to be - and it's partly because I've been busy elsewhere doing lovely things. Last year, I published two poetry pamphlets with… Continue reading On Being Elsewhere
It's been one month since members of Hamas broke through the Gaza-Israel barrier and killed 1400 Israelis, as well as taking over 200 people hostage, including children. Since then, Israel has continually bombed Gaza, resulting in over 10,000 Palestinian deaths, including over 4,000 children. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict didn't begin on October 7, of course, although… Continue reading Guilt and Empathy
Unfortunately, I'm a bit ill at the moment. I had to miss a scheduled reading in Brighton on Thursday which I'm very sad about. I hope to be able to read there another time. I've written a post on Substack with links to poems that have kept me going in the last two weeks, and… Continue reading October Notes
I'm running a small group, Saturday afternoon, in-person workshop at The Make Space in Bradford-on-Avon for anyone who would like to read, talk about, learn from and write more poetry. In a group of no more than eight people, you will have the opportunity to explore different techniques and poetry forms used by a selection… Continue reading Turning Up to the Page
I'm running an in-person, small group workshop on 14 November at The Make Space in Bradford-on-Avon. This workshop is for anyone interested in finding out more about and reading nature and eco poetry, and a chance to write and share your own poems that engage with the natural world. In a group of no more… Continue reading Writing the Earth
I had wonderful time in Liverpool launching my limited edition, handstitched pamphlet One Deliberate Red Dress Time I Shone at the Open Eye Gallery. A massive thank you to writer and artist Maria Isakova Bennett, founder of the Coast to Coast to Coast project, who makes the very beautiful poetry journals for the winners in… Continue reading One Deliberate Red Dress Time I Shone
It's been an enjoyable and busy few months since my pamphlet Love and Stones was published by Live Canon Poetry at the end of May. I feel lucky to have been invited to read in some beautiful and welcoming places where I've made new friends and had fun chatting all things poetry at some great… Continue reading September and ahead: some workshops and readings
I haven’t kept up with the Sealey Challenge but it has prompted me to read more poems from my TO BE READ pile, including this one, ‘Late fig’ by Clare Best from her collection, Beyond the Gate (Worple Press, 2023). It’s a concrete poem but there’s no concrete here, it’s all fig, a mid-winter gift… Continue reading Three poems from books in my TBR pile
Josephine Corcoran 