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I wasn't going to blog today but started playing around with words and images after spending some time in the garden. lavender has lost its purple like it's been through a hot wash left out in the rain leaves rust roses have dropped pink litter on burnt grass fat pigeon… Continue reading September
If you want to see real anger, read some of the comments in response to Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett's Guardian piece Art, aura and the doomed search for the perfect selfie. Although Cosslett writes that she has discovered that "even to suggest that to look at a painting through a phone is a lesser form of… Continue reading Hating on Phone Culture
I originally wrote this post four years ago, the day before my oldest child took her first public exams. That same child is now in her second year at university and the second one is about to leave for university in September. I thought I'd share the post again as it's GCSE Results Day here… Continue reading The Day before GCSE Results Day
We stood to stare at our planet Some of us knelt, offered up our phones Children said they wanted to go home Words and photos by Josephine Corcoran from an art installation by Luke Jerram, Gaia - The Earth at Wills Memorial Building, Bristol.
Two award-winning poets, Kathy Pimlott and David Clarke, are reading at Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge on Saturday, September 7 (2-4pm). This event is organised by Josephine Corcoran and Trowbridge Stanza. Everyone is welcome and there will also be the chance to read your own poems at the open-mic. Tickets are £5 on the door. Read… Continue reading Kathy Pimlott and David Clarke reading at Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge
I'm re-sharing some of my collage poems from the recent past. These were written for an Instagram competition (#aquietpassionpoetrycompetition) run by The Poetry School and Soda Pictures ('A Quiet Passion' was their biopic of Emily Dickinson released two years ago). The judges stated that they wanted to see "poems which use the concentrated visual qualities… Continue reading Collage Poems
I wanted to mention two courses that have started this week. Both are at the online learning platform FutureLearn which I find easy and enjoyable to use (for online learning, the technology has to be good, don't you think?) and both are from Newcastle University in Australia. The first is Fairy Tales: Meanings, Messages, and Morals,… Continue reading Some free online courses at FutureLearn you might like
Sleep reports. Notes about dreams. Severe admonishments about time spent on endless scrolling. Headache details. Plans for tomorrow and thinking ahead to the weekend. Scraps of ideas. Statements about sleep requirements. Observations about what is going on elsewhere in the house. Self-congratulations on dishes cooked. Lists of every ingredient. Details about where in the house… Continue reading What I found when I read through my diary
Just to let you know that Nine Arches Press is holding a Summer Sale with many books half-price or less including What Are You After? my collection of poems which was published last summer. 🙂
For the August meeting of our poetry group, on August 3rd (2-4pm), Trowbridge Stanza is hosting an informal, fun, informative and enjoyable workshop about the pantoum. We'll read pantoums, write our own, either individually or in collaboration, or both, and hold a low-key, encouraging and friendly performance at the end of the afternoon. Everyone is… Continue reading Pantoum Workshop! August 3 in Trowbridge
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