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Something to look forward to this coming Sunday, 31st August - Rebecca Goss and Dan O'Brien will be reading as part of the Transatlantic Poetry Series. Details here. The reading starts at 8pm BST / 3pm EDT / Noon PDT. Both poets have sent work to my poetry site, And Other Poems. Rebecca's poem 'Repossession' is here and her… Continue reading Goss and O’Brien reading at Transatlantic Poetry
Follow my blog with Bloglovin This is just to say that you can follow my blog using the Bloglovin' Reader if you'd like to. You can click the link above and I'll add a widget in the sidebar once I work out how to do that. There's more information about adding your blog to Bloglovin'… Continue reading I’ve added this blog to Bloglovin’
Lose yourself all over again. Join in with #LossLit. Tweet your creative responses to do with 'loss'. It's been two weeks since writers Kit Caless and Aki Schilz, co-creators of#LossLit on Twitter and Storify, talked to me about this exciting and innovative project which invites and curates submissions of tweet-sized micropoems and microfictions to do… Continue reading Get ready for another #LossLit evening.
I'm just back from a week in southern Spain with my family. As well as swimwear and sundresses, I packed my notebooks, pens, draft poems and plenty of reading material, including these two books by Vicki Feaver. Vicki was kind enough to send two new poems from her forthcoming collection to my poetry blog, And… Continue reading Postcard from Spain.
It's been two weeks since I switched off my work emails and mobile phone and promised myself I'd focus on my forthcoming poetry pamphlet. I started the holiday in de-cluttering mode, paying particular attention to the oceans of multiple drafts of poems swimming through my house. I know that some poets never throw any of their… Continue reading Writing in between catching up with family.
I'm just back from a week in Spain and I'll blog about my travels soon. While I was away my poem 'Candle' was published in Nutshells and Nuggets and can be read here. Submission guidelines to Nutshells and Nuggets are here. This is a beautifully simple site for small poems (nine lines maximum) edited by… Continue reading A poem at Nutshells and Nuggets
Tweet your creative responses to 'loss' and be a part of this new digital writing project. On Twitter recently the #LossLit hashtag has caught my eye and I've noticed people tweeting micropoems and microfictions to do with 'loss'. There's a #LossLit evening tonight at 9pm (GMT) so I'll be tuning in to Twitter and following… Continue reading Find out more about #LossLit
I have a new poem online here. Thanks to editor Jody Porter.
I'm writing this post at 8pm on Saturday, 9th August. I'm in bed, eating an apple, there's an oversized mug of liquorice tea on the windowsill, a pile of notebooks, pens, poetry books and magazines sinking into the mattress next to me like a silent lover. Ooo-er. We're not long back from a 12 mile… Continue reading Weekly update from bed
In August 2012 I started a poetry blog, an uncluttered, ad-free site, called And Other Poems. Two years, 262 poets and more than 425 poems later, And Other Poems is going to take a rest. There will be five more posts next week so please don't abandon ship yet. If you haven't been following,… Continue reading Announcement about And Other Poems
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