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A poetry blog, to many people, is a site for their own poems but my poetry blog, And Other Poems, is different because I post other people's work and invite submissions. I suppose And Other Poems could more accurately be described as a zine or a journal but it's blog technology I'm using and, anyway,… Continue reading A poetry blog, zine or journal: why you should
I've realised that deciding to publish a blogpost every week is much easier than actually doing it. There have been several false starts. I was going to write about waiting, since that is what I'm doing a lot of this week - this month, in fact. I'm waiting to hear about poems I've submitted to… Continue reading Starting and ending meetings with a poem
Happy New Year to everyone. My aim this year is to post more regularly here, once a week if I can, and I'm thinking that Sunday might be the day for it. Let's see. Christmas has been and gone. This year the cost-effectiveness and renewability of an artificial tree appealed, so we set out on… Continue reading Unknown trees, Ted Hughes, a poem and rabbits!
15 horse-inspired poems now live on And Other Poems! 31st January 2014 is the first day of the Chinese New Year of the Horse. And Other Poems will run a special post featuring poetry inspired by horses. If you'd like your poems to be included, please submit in the body of an email or in… Continue reading Call for poems for Chinese New Year
In 2013 And Other Poems received over 40,000 views from 120 countries. Most visitors came from the UK, with the US and Ireland not far behind. In no particular order, posts featuring poems by the following poets received the most views on And Other Poems in 2013: Alvin Pang David Morley… Continue reading Three popular poets on And Other Poems
In no particular order, here's some online and offline stuff I've enjoyed in 2013. Two great blogposts I love following Isabel Rogers on twitter and this year I got to meet her at The Live Canon Poetry Competition Prize Giving. Here's her fantastic blogpost about that event. In fact, 2013 was a bumper year for… Continue reading Skip to the good bits
This week, in my new role as project worker for The Reader Organisation (TRO), I’ve been working hard to get ready for the shared reading groups that I’ll be facilitating, very soon, in Wiltshire. This work has involved lots of reading. Yes, I’ve been slaving over some good books. My first session for people with… Continue reading Slaving over a good book
I was extremely happy to be a part of this entertaining event at Greenwich Theatre, London SE10 on Sunday, 24th November. The Live Canon Poetry Competition is different to most other poetry comps because not only are all shortlisted poems published in a handsomely produced anthology, they are also performed on stage by members of the… Continue reading 2013 Live Canon Poetry Competition Prize Giving Show
It's been ten days of highs and lows since I took a new, part-time job with The Reader Organisation. Probably the lowest hours were the five and a half spent travelling up to Liverpool on three, packed, over-heated trains, last Sunday afternoon and early evening. The purpose of the journey was so I could spend… Continue reading Work/Life/Writing Balance and a Book at Breakfast
I wrote the post below when I first started working for The Reader Organisation: There might be a slight change in focus on my blog over the next 18 months as I settle into a new part-time job as a Project Worker for The Reader Organisation. Part-time because I'm still very much part of my… Continue reading The Reader Organisation
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