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There's been a two-week break from the poetry classes I taught at Trowbridge Town Hall so I've been on half-term. This is the first time poetry has been on offer at the Town Hall - scriptwriting classes were available last year and there have been, and still are, drawing classes on the programme. My classes have… Continue reading What I did over Half-Term
Day Four of NaBloPoMo and NanoPoblano and the Weekly Photo Challenge at WordPress has arrived to save the day. Hurray! (how am I going to make it to day 30?!) Chaos is this week's photo challenge theme, a state of mind, being and household arrangements never far from my life (I live with two teenagers). Nor… Continue reading The chaos of an untidied garden
This morning I popped into the Artists' Café at Trowbridge Town Hall, a monthly meeting open to artists and other creatives and a space to meet and chat informally about creative news, ideas, projects and opportunities. For those of you who haven't visited, Trowbridge Town Hall has, for the past five years, been developing into a… Continue reading Artists’ Café at Trowbridge Town Hall
Day Two of National Blog Posting Month and I have a hair appointment. Has to be done, much as I'd love to be the kind of person who can whip out a pair of hairdressing scissors and a box of hair dye and emerge from my bathroom half an hour later looking like a person… Continue reading Hair Appointment
On the first day of National Blog Posting Month, #NaBloPoMo and #NanoPoBlano (hello, everyone!), I wasn't expecting to be writing a post about my husband, Andrew Horsfall. But the first face I saw when I went online this morning was his smiling face on Facebook telling me he was doing Movember again this year. Before you wonder… Continue reading Movember: My husband’s story
Just when I've been thinking I am wasting too much time here, does anyone care about this? is anyone reading me? what the heck is the point of this? I should be doing something else, I should be off the internet, I have poems to write! I have workshops to plan! I have poems to… Continue reading I’m doing NaNoPoblano 2016
Trowbridge Town Hall was awash with poets and artists on National Poetry Day, October 6 2016. Ten local schools each sent small groups of children and a member of staff to take part in my poetry and art workshops which I ran with artist Ben Midgley. In addition, poets from Trowbridge Poetry Society Stanza group took part,… Continue reading National Poetry Day at Trowbridge Town Hall
Leafing through the jottings in my Winchester Poetry Festival notebook, I see that I wrote down some of the comments Sinéad Morrissey made, before she read amazing poems, all new work, from her next collection (out in 2017). "We're in a toxic revolution," the poet said, referring to the Northern Ireland Department of Arts and Culture being replaced by… Continue reading Home thoughts about Winchester Poetry Festival
Talking to people after the festival, many have mentioned the Sunday readings by Inua Ellams, Sarah Howe and Kei Miller as one of their highlights. These three major poets are all associated with The Complete Works, a national development programme for advanced Black and Asian poets. Who could have failed to be blown away by Inua… Continue reading The Complete Works at Winchester Poetry Festival
There have been so many outstanding readings at the festival, it would take me until the end of the year to tell you about them in detail. I'll write some more when I'm back at home but for now, here are some things poets have said which I've liked enough to record in my notebook. I… Continue reading Winchester Poetry Festival: Photos and snippets
Josephine Corcoran 
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