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If you would like to buy a copy of my poetry pamphlet, 'The Misplaced House,' it's now available to order here. Copies will also be available to buy at these events: The Poetry Café, Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BX, on Monday, 8th December, 7.30pm, when my pamphlet and other new publications from tall-lighthouse… Continue reading ‘The Misplaced House’ available from tall-lighthouse website
Just a quick post to remind anyone within easy reach of SE London that I'm reading at the Vanguard Reading Series this Thursday, 20th November, 7.30pm. The reading series was created by novelist, poet, and writing tutor, Richard Skinner, who is also Director of the Fiction Programme at the Faber Academy. It's a monthly series of… Continue reading I’m reading at Vanguard on Thursday 20th November
Really, really happy to tell you that my debut poetry pamphlet, The Misplaced House, will be published by tall-lighthouse on November 30th. The pamphlet will be launched, along with other new publications from tall-lighthouse, at The Poetry Café, Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BX on Monday, 8th December at 7.30pm. More details here. It… Continue reading ‘The Misplaced House’ to be published on November 30th. London launch December 8th.
What a treat to spend some time with Hilda Sheehan today, and on her birthday, too. Hilda has really helped me become more involved in poetry over the last few years, through her work at Bluegate Poets, Swindon, Domestic Cherry magazine, and the Swindon Poetry Festival, of which she was this year's Director. There must be hundreds of people… Continue reading Happy Birthday, Hilda Sheehan
Just saying hello before I head off for four days at The Swindon Poetry Festival. I feel like someone leaving home for university, except it's a university of poetry. Actually, knowing Hilda Sheehan who's organised the festival, it will be more like a UNIVERSE of poetry in Swindon. I can't wait! I'm packing writing materials,… Continue reading Next stop Swindon Poetry Festival
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
My month off seems like a far away country, yet it's only been 12 days since I've been back at work. Thank goodness my job involves reading poetry, and thank goodness for Anthony Wilson's Lifesaving Poems series on his wonderful blog (soon to be made into a book by one of the UK's leading poetry… Continue reading Lifesaving Poems Saved the Day
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
I'm back to work tomorrow and I'm feeling low that my month off has come to an end. I'm pleased that I've managed to work on my pamphlet and now have 18 poems which are as ready as they'll ever be to send to the printers - although I haven't had a lot of contact… Continue reading The holiday’s over…
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
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