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I had a wonderful time reading at The Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden, London, on Saturday night, with Jackie Wills, tutor from the Aldeburgh Eight Advanced Poetry Seminar, and the 2015 Aldeburgh Eight Poets, who are Andrew Rudd, Anita Pati, John Challis, Kathy Pimlott, Miranda Yates, Seán Hewitt, Suzannah Evans, and me. It was such a pleasure to… Continue reading Somewhere lovely to stay in London
The Forward Arts Foundation, sponsors of The Forward Prizes for Poetry, has announced that this year, for the first time, online journals based in the UK and Ireland are permitted to nominate up to two poems from their sites for consideration in the Prize for Best Single Poem. There are further guidelines for eligibility, available here,… Continue reading UK online poetry journals now eligible to submit to Forward Prize
I am fond of writing in bed, by hand, in a notebook, as soon as I wake up. I also like to drift from sofa to chair to sofa, carrying an ever-growing pile of drafts. I sometimes write at our kitchen table but, increasingly, this space has been monopolised by our daughter who's now studying… Continue reading My writing space
Since I last posted, I've been to a couple of poetry evenings. The first was at Trowbridge Civic Centre to hear the Palestinian-American poet and activist Remi Kanazi perform his work and the second was Love Night at the Poetry Cafe in Frome organised by writer and tutor Crysse Morrison. It's a treat to attend poetry events… Continue reading Two poetry evenings in the West Country
As a follow-up to my post about writing or not writing about illness and death, I wanted to put down a few thoughts about living with cancer, or, more precisely, about living with someone who is living with early-stage prostate cancer. Of course, cancer is different for each person and this post is only my… Continue reading Living with someone who’s living with cancer
This week I've been hearing as well as reading poetry. I was one of the judges of the Poetry by Heart competition at St Augustine's Catholic College, Trowbridge, a local secondary school. Poetry by Heart is a national competition in which school pupils aged 14 - 18 learn and recite poems by heart. Schools hold… Continue reading Poetry Aloud
I am thrilled that Robert Peake has taken the time to review my pamphlet The Misplaced House at The Huffington Post, alongside pamphlets by Victoria Kennefick and Rosie Miles. Robert introduces the three pamphlets as follows: Poetry bears both the opportunity and responsibility to take on taboo subjects like life, love, death, and politics without… Continue reading ‘The Misplaced House’ reviewed at HuffPost Books
I've been thinking about illness and the realm of public vs private recently. The deaths of David Bowie and Alan Rickman came as a shock to me because both men had chosen not to reveal to the general public that they had been living with cancer. There was no public announcement about their illnesses until… Continue reading On writing/not writing about illness and death
The Lexicon of Love was the debut album by the British new wave band ABC, released in 1982, and I've pinched the title for this blog post. I've been tempted by the Weekly Photo Challenge again which, this week, is 'Alphabet'. I've chosen this title because ABC has reminded me of my first wedding anniversary,… Continue reading The Lexicon of Love
Josephine Corcoran 
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