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My biggest news is that I was shortlisted for The Rialto/Poetry School Poetry Editor Development Programme but I wasn't successful. In a case of unfortunate timing, the interviews were scheduled to take place bang in the middle of my family holiday in western France so my 'meeting' with Michael Mackmin (Editor at The Rialto) and… Continue reading A shortlist, a tumblr and let’s accidentally connect!
...and other thoughts from when I was abroad.... I'm just back from a happy week in western Brittany with my family. I really enjoy seeing my name emblazoned on mugs, bowls, key rings and other such items when I'm in France, the extra accent on the first 'e' is the icing on le gâteau, and, frankly,… Continue reading Je m’appelle Joséphine
This is the story of the first year of my poetry blog And Other Poems where I've posted over 200 poems by 177 poets Whether I continue to add poems to the blog will depend on the quality of work that’s sent to it and my own commitments. Anyone who has ever been involved in running… Continue reading One Year of Poems
Several of us in my writing group have been talking about reviews - there are some excellent tips here. Thanks, Emma Lee.
It seems that some people are already off on their travels for the summer. There have been tweets and blogposts from glamorous-sounding European cities and far-flung mountain ranges. I can hear the suitcases and rucksacks being dragged from the tops of wardrobes, the snap of elastic as last year's swimsuits are optimistically pinged into place… Continue reading Summer’s here and I’m still writing
And Other Poems is looking for holiday-themed poems to post in August. All locations welcomed: sun-drenched, rain-filled, exotic or mundane; seaside, mountainside, lakeside or roadside. Caravans will not be discriminated against, nor will gîtes, tents, villas, boats, B&Bs, hotels, house-swaps or tree-houses. Whatever and wherever 'holiday' means to you, restful or stressful, silent or multilingual,… Continue reading Call for Poems: Holiday Poems Wanted
It's times like this, when I'm a bit short of ideas, that I think it'd be nice to blog about cats. They're clearly loved by many, judging by the number of cute snapshots of handsome cats, or links to new cat poems, that appear, daily, in multiple places on the internet. As recently as… Continue reading Where are the Great Rabbit Poems?
It was very kind of Literature Works, the Literature Development Agency for South West England, to ask me to write about my work in community settings. You can read what I said over on their website. And here are some images from projects I've been involved in!
Here are some thumb-sized images of poets and performers at the packed-to-the-rafters launch of Hilda Sheehan's debut collection, The Night My Sister Went to Hollywood (Cultured Llama, 2013), at The Platform, Swindon, on Friday, 10th May. Among the readers were poets Robert Vas Dias, Leland Bardwell, Cristina Navazo-Eguía Newton, Martin Malone and Michael Scott.… Continue reading Chopin and Popcorn at Hilda Sheehan’s Book Launch
I haven't posted for a while and here's what I've been up to... I put together 24 poems for a pamphlet competition and it took a lot of time, deciding which poems seemed good enough and which fitted the theme. Yes, a theme. I looked again at the poems I've written over the last four… Continue reading Writing themes, blogs and The Beatles.
Josephine Corcoran 
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