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On National Poetry Day, Thursday 6th October 2016, 11am - 4pm, poets and artists will be "saying it with a poem" at Trowbridge Town Hall. Inspired by Sophie Herxheimer, the poet and artist who's designed NPD's artwork this year, poets, including Josephine Corcoran and members of a new Poetry Society Stanza which meets at the… Continue reading Say it with a Poem at Trowbridge Town Hall
General atmosphere in this house: Sleepy. Heavy-eyelidded. One teenager came back from Reading Festival at gone three this morning, one adult stayed awake to let him back in, the other (me) fell asleep but kept waking up to check if everyone was home. One teenager is worn out from being away for two weeks on… Continue reading Weekend Report
Town Hall Poets, a Poetry Society Stanza group led by Josephine Corcoran, meets at Trowbridge Town Hall on the second Monday of every month, 6pm - 8pm. Address: Market St, Trowbridge BA14 8EQ. Venue Information Ring 01225 774306I for enquires. You do not need to be a member of the Poetry Society or live in Trowbridge to… Continue reading New Poetry Society Stanza in Trowbridge
Summer is whizzing by and my head is filling up with to do lists. At this point, they are mild-mannered and patient lists, humming softly to themselves as summer ripens around them, but once they cotton-on to shrinking daylight and cooler winds, once they catch sight of the date on the calendar and the dying… Continue reading Summer is whizzing by
I had a wonderful time reading with Louisa Adjoa Parker at Schumacher College, Dartington, Devon, on August 3rd for The Enemies Project South West Poetry Tour. You can read more about The Enemies Project here. It's a project that started in 2011, dreamed up by poet and artist Stephen Fowler, which facilitates new collaborative creative works. So far… Continue reading Writing a collaborative poem
From September, 2016, I'll be teaching weekly poetry writing classes in Trowbridge at the old Town Hall. All courses are five weeks long and are for people aged 16+ Starting September 20 TUESDAYS 10.30am - 12.30pm: Start Writing Poetry £50 (for 5 sessions). More details and how to book here. Class size 8 - 12. This course… Continue reading New poetry writing classes in Trowbridge
I'm very happy to have some new poems out in print this year (after a lean 2015!). Earlier this year I had a poem in New Walk magazine. Most recently I have three poems in Under the Radar and two poems in Poetry Wales. It's the second time I've been in Under the Radar and… Continue reading Five new poems
Reading Ruby Robinson’s debut collection Every Little Sound (Liverpool University Press, 2016) in the early days of the EU Referendum result, my ears were still ringing with one of the Leave campaign’s key slogans: “Take back Control,” an imperative phrase masquerading as a promise of freedom, and a reminder of the power dynamics at work in… Continue reading Review of ‘Every Little Sound’ by Ruby Robinson
I am extremely sad that Gareth Lewis, editor/publisher at the tall-lighthouse, the independent small press that published my pamphlet The Misplaced House, has died at the age of 41. We only met once, at the London launch of my pamphlet, but we corresponded regularly via email, particularly while we were editing my manuscript. I was so grateful to… Continue reading Gareth Lewis
The deadline for the competition is midnight on Sunday, 31 July so you have just under three weeks to send in your poems. This is a fantastic opportunity to win a generous cash prize, read at a special prize-giving event at Winchester Poetry Festival on Sunday 9 October 2016, and be published in a competition anthology to… Continue reading Winchester Poetry Prize: Send in your poems!
Josephine Corcoran 
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