In January this year, I took a photo from my kitchen window every day and posted it on Instagram. The photos I took at night, or very early in the morning, before it turned light, are the most interesting I think. (The ones taken during the day mostly involve wheelie bins on our patio...). In the photo below,… Continue reading In the wee small hours, someone’s working
Author: Josephine Corcoran
Josephine Corcoran is a writer, originally from the north west of England and now based in the south west. Her professional credits include three poetry pamphlets and one full collection, a stage play, and two BBC Radio 4 credits (for a short story and afternoon play). She founded and edited the online poetry site And Other Poems until 2023.
Looking forward to Swindon Festival of Poetry
Not long to go before I take up lodgings for FOUR DAYS in Swindon and immerse myself in the 2014 Swindon Festival of Poetry. It feels like I've signed up for almost every event, there's so much on offer, including readings from Don Share, Maurice Riordan, Kathryn Maris, Allison McVety, Robert Peake, Cliff Yates, Jackie Wills… Continue reading Looking forward to Swindon Festival of Poetry
Lifesaving Poems Saved the Day
My month off seems like a far away country, yet it's only been 12 days since I've been back at work. Thank goodness my job involves reading poetry, and thank goodness for Anthony Wilson's Lifesaving Poems series on his wonderful blog (soon to be made into a book by one of the UK's leading poetry… Continue reading Lifesaving Poems Saved the Day
The enduring appeal of a fountain pen.
It used to be dark green but, sadly, the green eventually peeled away (actually, I peeled it away, in moments of absent-mindedness). There have been times when I thought it missing forever, and I celebrated as heartily as the shepherd finding his lost sheep when it was found: in the dungeon that lies in the depths of our… Continue reading The enduring appeal of a fountain pen.
My Dad showed me how to be human
This week's photo challenge, 'Humanity', is a chance to tell you about my Dad, Basil Patrick Dominic Corcoran (1923 - 1992), who showed me how to be a human, who left school at 14 to be a butcher's delivery boy, who fell off the too-big delivery bike, who mixed up the paper-wrapped meat parcels, who delivered the wrong… Continue reading My Dad showed me how to be human
Saturday at Winchester Poetry Festival 2014
I absolutely loved my day at Winchester Poetry Festival on Saturday, 13th September. I snapped photos and tweeted, encouraged by the organisers' requests to audiences to help spread the word about this inaugural festival. But, as Michael Longley said before his stunning reading to a packed auditorium on Saturday evening, "I knew this was going to be a… Continue reading Saturday at Winchester Poetry Festival 2014
The holiday’s over…
I'm back to work tomorrow and I'm feeling low that my month off has come to an end. I'm pleased that I've managed to work on my pamphlet and now have 18 poems which are as ready as they'll ever be to send to the printers - although I haven't had a lot of contact… Continue reading The holiday’s over…
The biggest adventure of all
'Adventure', the theme of this week's Photo Challenge, made me think about some of the quite exciting (but tame compared to most people's) adventures I've had in my life: travelling alone across Europe in my late teens; working in Paris and Monaco for three years as a children's Nanny in my early twenties; living and working… Continue reading The biggest adventure of all
Poems on a Beermat Prizegiving
A brilliant evening at The Swan Hotel in Bradford-on-Avon last night for the award-giving and readings of the ten poems chosen to be printed on beermats for the Poems-on-a-Beermat-Competition. The ten winning poems, which can be read here, are: Rock Plain Boxing Club by Tammy Adams How She Wrote Your Name by Russ Berry A Pint… Continue reading Poems on a Beermat Prizegiving
Talking Pictures
It's been a long time since I took part in the Weekly Photo Challenge at WordPress which, this week, is 'Dialogue' (http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/dialogue/). The idea of placing two images next to each other to tell a story appealed to me. As a writer, I'm longing to tell you what the story of these two pictures is… Continue reading Talking Pictures
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