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I had an amazing day at the Queen's College, Oxford on Saturday, 14th May, taking part in Modern Poetry in Translation's Study Day to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the magazine. In the morning participants could choose two, from eight, workshops, then there was a break for lunch (and delicious it was, too). It was extremely… Continue reading Translation Study Day with MPT
I'm reading in Bath at Poetry and a Pint with Stephen Payne tomorrow, Monday 9th May 7.30pm. It would be lovely to see you there! I met up with Stephen last week with the intention of planning what we'd read but, of course, we hardly planned anything! We did manage to agree that we'd read one… Continue reading Poetry and a Pint at St James Wine Vaults
Professor Anita Taylor is an artist, Dean of the School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University, Director of the Jerwood Drawing Prize and Founder of Drawing Projects UK which has a new base at Bridge House, Trowbridge. Last week, I popped into Bridge House to see The Discerning Eye Collection which is being shown there until… Continue reading Interview with artist Anita Taylor
Since it's the first of the month, I thought I'd share with you some of my plans for the rest of the year. I am a lover of lists, even if I often fail to cross off all of the items written on them. I'm not a slavish adherer to plans, I don't feel like… Continue reading Pinch, punch, make some plans
While I was at All Day Sonnets in Winchester last Saturday, I had the pleasure of meeting poet, actor, and professional voice coach Kate Firth who will be running a Performance Skills Workshop at the Poetry Festival on Saturday, 8 October. Somewhat pressed for time, and thinking about my 'what's in your bag/pocket' series, I… Continue reading Meeting Kate Firth
On Saturday, 23 April I spent the afternoon at Winchester Discovery Centre which is where most of the events for Winchester Poetry Festival will take place in October. The Festival hosted 'All Day Sonnets,' a marathon sonnet reading from 10am until 5pm, open to anyone who signed up beforehand to read one of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, on… Continue reading All Day Sonnets in Winchester
This is an invitation to take part in a new blogging event 'What's in my pocket (or bag) and what does it say about me?' All you have to do is to publish a new blog post which includes an image of what's in your pocket/bag and a brief explanation about it. Link back (pingback) to this… Continue reading New Blogging Event: What’s in my pocket?
What made me: re-read a book I already had? buy a book? take a book out of the library? It started with this newspaper article, an interview in The Guardian with poet, critic and translator Michael Hofmann. I tend to buy The Guardian on a Saturday but I hadn't read the article until I noticed… Continue reading On the trail of a book purchase
Details of the line-up for the second Winchester Poetry Festival, which will run from Friday 7 October until Sunday 9 October, are now live at the Winchester Poetry Festival website. Tickets are available for Friends in person or by telephone (01962 873603) from the Winchester Discovery Centre Box Office from today, 15 April. General sales and… Continue reading Winchester Poetry Festival Programme Launched
Things have been quite slow in recent weeks as I've been looking after my husband, Andrew, who's recovering from surgery following his diagnosis of prostate cancer (and doing really well), plus it's been the Easter holidays for our two teenagers, always a mixture of chaotic delightfulness, late night taxi duty, complicated sleeping arrangements and noise.… Continue reading Slow, slow, slow-slow, slow.
Josephine Corcoran 
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