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Not long to go before I take up lodgings for FOUR DAYS in Swindon and immerse myself in the 2014 Swindon Festival of Poetry. It feels like I've signed up for almost every event, there's so much on offer, including readings from Don Share, Maurice Riordan, Kathryn Maris, Allison McVety, Robert Peake, Cliff Yates, Jackie Wills… Continue reading Looking forward to Swindon Festival of Poetry
I absolutely loved my day at Winchester Poetry Festival on Saturday, 13th September. I snapped photos and tweeted, encouraged by the organisers' requests to audiences to help spread the word about this inaugural festival. But, as Michael Longley said before his stunning reading to a packed auditorium on Saturday evening, "I knew this was going to be a… Continue reading Saturday at Winchester Poetry Festival 2014
A brilliant evening at The Swan Hotel in Bradford-on-Avon last night for the award-giving and readings of the ten poems chosen to be printed on beermats for the Poems-on-a-Beermat-Competition. The ten winning poems, which can be read here, are: Rock Plain Boxing Club by Tammy Adams How She Wrote Your Name by Russ Berry A Pint… Continue reading Poems on a Beermat Prizegiving
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
Just a reminder that Robert Peake's Transatlantic Poetry Reading Series is still going strong with Gerry Cambridge and David Mason reading live on air this Sunday, April 27th (8pm BST / 3pm EDT / 12pm PDT) and Agi Mishol and Marie Howe reading on Sunday, 4th May. Today, where I live in West Wiltshire, it's… Continue reading Curl up with a poetry reading series
An imminent poetry reading (Sunday, 2nd March 7pm at The Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, London NW5 2RX - come along if you're around) and some comments by Robin Houghton about open-mic slots in her recent blog post have made me think about speaking poetry aloud: how I love some events but… Continue reading Speaking Poetry Aloud
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
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
Hot on the heels of my fluffed-up reading in Oxford (see previous post), I drove up to Matlock Bath in Derbyshire for the launch of Templar Poetry's 2013 anthology, Peloton. I say "I drove up" but in fact it was my kind and encouraging husband, Andrew, who did the driving, and our two children, Kitty,… Continue reading Two poems in Peloton, the new Templar anthology
I've been using reading glasses for a few years now. To begin with I bought some cheap, off-the-shelf reading glasses from supermarkets and they made the world appear brighter but, increasingly, over time, my squinting, straining eyes were crying out for something more substantial. So I visited an optician's and ordered some properly prescribed reading… Continue reading A poem in The Interpreter’s House – time to try my new specs!
Josephine Corcoran 