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My book What Are You After? is now available to buy direct from Nine Arches Press. I am very happy to have received wonderful endorsements from two poets whose work I admire enormously. Rebecca Goss says of my collection: Josephine Corcoran’s fine debut reflects upon the personal and political with imaginative flair. A poet who… Continue reading My book is available to pre-order from Nine Arches Press
My poetry book What Are You After? is now available to pre-order direct from Nine Arches Press. I thought I'd share my new book cover with you and tell you something about how it came about. It features a painting 'Transient II' by my friend and artist Mary Petrovska. Mary is one of the first… Continue reading My book cover
Please let me know if you would like to buy one of the remaining copies of my poetry pamphlet The Misplaced House published by tall-lighthouse in November 2014. If you send an email to josephinecorcoran13@gmail.com, I will send you a PayPal invoice by return. The price is £5 which includes P&P (UK only).
I was about to tweet a happy tweet and post a happy post about my happy year, when our washing machine broke down and our boiler stopped working. It was eerily uncanny, as if the Fairy who stops you feeling too smug had flown into my house and sprinkled some of her glum magic over… Continue reading New Year’s Eve Musings
I update my 'News' page regularly but I realise that this won't show up if you follow this blog via email or via WordPress. So, yes, there is some happy personal news over there that I would like to share with you! I won First Prize in the Buzzwords Poetry Competition with my poem The… Continue reading Some recent news
Just to say that I'm thrilled that Live Canon decided to film the poems shortlisted in this year's competition. Here is the text of my poem, followed by the film. Do you remember those wild, out of control, pre-Referendum days When learner drivers raced down the hard-shoulder And horses rampaged in the bus… Continue reading Do you remember those wild, out of control, pre-referendum days?
I'm going to be using this blog as a kind of diary and a place to keep notes about my work as a Writer in Residence at St Gregory's Catholic College in Bath. I won't use students' real names or photographs and I won't do or say anything which would put any young person at… Continue reading My first weeks as a Writer in Residence in a school #writerinschool
I am extremely happy, excited and grateful to have been asked to read poetry at this year's Greenbelt Festival, alongside Nancy Campbell, Sasha Dugdale and Rebecca Goss, and introduced by Anthony Wilson! More details coming soon. Find out more about the festival at the Greenbelt website.
Peter Raynard at Proletarian Poetry has written about my poem Working Class Poem, first published in Under the Radar magazine. I wrote the poem when I was thinking about my own background and about the ways that working class people are represented in the mainstream media and in popular culture in the UK. Mostly, I feel… Continue reading Featured at Poetry Wales and Proletarian Poetry
A quick update about what I'm up to. I'm still waiting to hear about a few submissions and I've sent out several poems to competitions. In recent years I've been trying to focus on magazines rather than competitions but I decided to ring the changes a bit and see how I get on. In the next… Continue reading A quick update
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