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I'm coming to the end of my first term as Writer in Residence at St Gregory's Catholic College, Bath. As you know, I've been using this blog as a place to document my work there. Previous posts include Beginning to Write Poetry With Secondary School Students, Reading and Writing Poems about Where I'm From, National Poetry… Continue reading Thinking about sound and other senses. #writerinschool
Hard to believe it's almost November again. This time last year, I took part in National Blog Posting Month, or nablopomo, and posted every day during November. I had a lot of fun and made new friends taking part in this challenge - and I am tempted to join in again! However, I've decided to… Continue reading NoNaBloPoMo or to put it another way.. not doing nablopomo
I update my 'News' page regularly but I realise that this won't show up if you follow this blog via email or via WordPress. So, yes, there is some happy personal news over there that I would like to share with you! I won First Prize in the Buzzwords Poetry Competition with my poem The… Continue reading Some recent news
As I've mentioned before, I'm using this blog as a place to keep a record of my residency at St Gregory's Catholic College, Bath, a non-selective comprehensive school for young people aged 11 - 18. I go into school one day a week, run a creative club (open to any student) during break and at… Continue reading Reading and writing poems about ‘Where I’m From’. #writerinschool
I wanted to jot down some thoughts while they're still fresh in my head after hearing Claudia Rankine in conversation with David Olusoga in Bristol last Friday. The evening started with David Olusoga telling Claudia Rankine that Citizen, Rankine's book of lyrical essays, fragments, and images of artwork, is like no other poetry book he's… Continue reading Claudia Rankine in conversation in Bristol
A flurry of exam results, celebrations, book-buying, bag-packing, car-loading, kisses and hugs, and our daughter, Kitty, is now settled into her university accommodation. Overnight, the average age of our household has gone up. The numbers of showers being taken and apples being eaten have gone down. There is less fruit tea being drunk and less… Continue reading Notes from a half-empty nest
I wanted to say how much I enjoyed hearing Ben Bransfield, Cynthia Miller, and Marvin Thompson read at Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge, on Saturday 30 September. These three poets are the winners of the 2017 Nine Arches Press/Poetry School Primers Competition which offered a prize of one year of mentoring with poets, editors and educators … Continue reading Primers Poets Volume Two at Drawing Projects UK
Popping in briefly to say I've had a happy but busy poetry week. I was in St Gregory's all day Wednesday and most of Thursday (National Poetry Day) and I stayed for their Open Evening on Thursday so wasn't home until nearly 10pm. I think that my school residency is going well, so far! I'm… Continue reading National Poetry Day at St Gregory’s #writerinschool
I enjoy browsing through poetry books on the look out for poems that I think will work well in a workshop. As I mentioned before, the theme for National Poetry Day this year is 'Freedom' so I've been looking for suitable poems to take into St Gregory's Catholic College where I'm working as Writer in… Continue reading Poetry Workshop Ideas: The Long Holidays by Esther Morgan #writerinschool
Just to say that I'm thrilled that Live Canon decided to film the poems shortlisted in this year's competition. Here is the text of my poem, followed by the film. Do you remember those wild, out of control, pre-Referendum days When learner drivers raced down the hard-shoulder And horses rampaged in the bus… Continue reading Do you remember those wild, out of control, pre-referendum days?
Josephine Corcoran 
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