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I thought it would be good to create a reasonably quiet, uncluttered, noise-free space for poems. The thing about writing a blog is that it's often tempting to add images, widgets, links and all sorts of stuff to make your site more interesting to visit. But poems, in my opinion, really don't enjoy too much… Continue reading I’ve started a new blog, just for poems
Just back from a week's holiday in Brittany with my family. Our raincoats were packed but they never saw the light of day. For once, our holiday week coincided with the arrival of blue skies and unbroken sunshine. As we were only there for a week we decided to try to make the most of… Continue reading Holiday Blog. Sunshine and Jane Austen.
You may remember from previous posts here and here, that I have been working with a group of talented Year 9 writers at Clarendon College, Trowbridge who wrote some terrific poems to commemorate the visit of the Olympic Torch Relay to their school. The poems formed one part of the school's contribution to The People's… Continue reading Poetry at Clarendon College
Update - 21st November 2012 My classes for Wiltshire College have almost finished for this term. Next term I will be running some classes from Trowbridge Museum. Please get in touch if you are interested (my email can be found under Contact Me). I will be back to teach at Wiltshire College in the Summer… Continue reading NEW Creative Writing Classes in Devizes and Trowbridge
I'm pleased to have a new poem on the excellent webzine, Ink, Sweat & Tears, edited by poet and artist Helen Ivory, which publishes an absorbing mix of poetry, flash fiction, book reviews and word and image pieces. I always feel a tingle of happiness when someone indicates that they like what I've written, and it's even… Continue reading Whose Poem is it, Anyway?
This week I attended a Networking Day organised by Cyprus Well, the Literature Development Agency for the South West of England. My thanks to David Woolley and Kate Wilson for arranging this day for writers wanting to expand their experience of working in community settings. Four writers, Phil Bowen, Ann Gray, Clive Hopwood and Cliff… Continue reading Triangle Sandwiches and Cups of Tea – Writers’ Networking Day
I'm pleased to have another small story, 'Snowdrops', on Paragraph Planet today. Paragraph Planet publishes a daily story; no line breaks are allowed, all writing is presented in one small paragraph and must be of exactly 75 words, including the title. However, when I started writing 'Snowdrops, I wasn't sure if it was a line… Continue reading Poem or Flash Fiction? You decide!
The anthology A Complicated Way of Being Ignored, edited by Michael Stewart and featuring poems by C J Allen, Sharon Black, Rosie Blagg, Nina Boyd, Geraldine Clarkson, Julia Deakin, Julie Mellor, Ian McEwen and other poets, including me, is available to buy at Amazon. The book was reviewed by Ian McMillan in the Yorkshire Post.
Kissing Frankenstein and Other Stories, an anthology of 53 flash fictions edited by Rachel Carter, featuring writers from all over the South West of England (including me) is now available to buy at Amazon.
Yesterday was my final two hour session with the group of Year 9 students from Clarendon College, Trowbridge who are writing poems to commemorate the visit of the Olympic Torch Relay to their school. The hard slog was done by the young writers as they shaped their rough drafts and ideas into poems to be… Continue reading Young Writers Publish Olympic Torch Relay Poems
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