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Trowbridge Stanza is looking forward to welcoming poets Stephen Lightbown and Caleb Parkin to read at Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge, (Drawing Projects UK is in Bridge House, next to Trowbridge train station) on Saturday April 6, 2-4pm. There will also be the opportunity to perform your own poems at the open-mic. Tickets are £3 on… Continue reading Stephen Lightbown and Caleb Parkin to read at Trowbridge Stanza
Today is World Poetry Day but if you're involved in poetry in any way, every day is a poetry day, isn't it? My social media feeds are mostly jammed with posts about Brexit but some poetry has seeped through, sometimes about Brexit. I like this poem by Laxinx actor and writer Guido Garcia Luechas which… Continue reading World Poetry Day
Not really a blog post but an ageing woman cycling on a static bicycle half crying, half laughing listening to an old George Michael song and thinking that she used to imagine George was singing to her about oh there was so much unrequited love in those days! and she never imagined anyone wasn't straight,… Continue reading Not really a blog post
Thanks to Afshan D'souza-Lodhi at The Common Sense Network for publishing my short piece, New Oldish Poets Society - which you can read here - detailing twelve women poets who've recently published their first pamphlet or collection in their late 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s. I've read a few articles recently charting the rise in… Continue reading New Old(ish) Poets Society
This week the shortlist for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry was announced and - for the first time ever - one of the books I nominated for this prize has been selected. I think it's a strong list and I can't think of any other recent poetry award (can you?) that… Continue reading My poetry week
Just sharing with you the news that poet Martyn Crucefix is going to be posting a poem a day on his blog, starting on March 1st and ending on March 29th - the day when the UK is supposed to be leaving the EU. Martyn writes that this sequence of new poems "has been written… Continue reading A poem a day in the days leading up to Brexit
Artist Anita Taylor has written a terrific post at Wiltshire Council's arts blog giving some insight into the story (so far) of Drawing Projects UK which she and co-director Gary Sangster established in Trowbridge in 2015. As a Trowbridge resident for 15 years, I absolutely love Drawing Projects UK and I can't quite believe my… Continue reading Three years of Drawing Projects UK
After a few years of not going to any regular writing events, other than the lovely Stanza I organise here in Trowbridge, I'm taking part in the 2019/20 Poetry Business Writing School which means I'll be up in Sheffield several times a year for workshops and I've already begun reading for the course and completing… Continue reading A student again
Last week I mentioned that the Poetry Society had a callout for poems that take note, in some way, of 99 of the mostly commonly used words used in 40 years of the National Poetry Competition. I wasn't going to write anything for this because I thought it was too much of a distraction from… Continue reading A few poetry notes
Goodbye, January. You weren't that bad.... actually, you were bad but, weirdly, I still felt a tenderness towards you when I turned the page of our calendar. And just as you said goodbye and made way for February, you let fall a skyful of snow. which held me hostage in my house for a day… Continue reading Snowed in
Josephine Corcoran 
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