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Dashing off a quick post to try to keep to my weekly blog plan as part of the Poet Bloggers 2018 Revival Tour. I'm knee-deep in old notebooks this week, as I flounder inside the messy and muddy quagmire that is my poetry manuscript. I've spent the past two days holed-up inside my house, as… Continue reading Keeping a poetry reading journal
I had my very first real life meeting with Jane Commane from Nine Arches Press on Friday. Nine Arches is based in the Midlands and I live in West Wiltshire, on the border of Somerset in the west of England, so we met in the cafe of the Friends House, by Euston Station in London. It's… Continue reading Towards a poetry collection
As I mentioned before, I liked the collage feel of both Anthony Wilson's notebook posts and Julie Mellor's post about Cubomania, in which Julie cut up blocks of text and placed them together in a random way to create new poems. With this in mind, I started a new term at St Gregory's Catholic College, Bath,… Continue reading Writing poetry with secondary school students: using cut ups #writerinschool
I'm a pretty regular blogger but I have let things slip a bit recently, mostly because I've been busy doing other kinds of writing. In a bid to up my game, I've been kindly added to this list of poet bloggers who are trying to blog weekly in 2018. You can also add yourself to… Continue reading Poet Bloggers 2018 Revival Tour
Our poetry group in Trowbridge has been getting together for just over a year now and I'm really happy to meet up regularly with such a lovely bunch of people! We meet on the first Saturday of each month (2-4pm) in Trowbridge at Drawing Projects UK, right by Trowbridge train station, to read and discuss… Continue reading Christmas Pamphlets from Candlestick Press
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
There's an excellent interview with poet and editor Rishi Dastidar at Lunar Poetry. Rishi talks about his approach to putting together his debut poetry collection Ticker-Tape (Nine Arches, 2017) and explains how he first approached Jane Commane at Nine Arches, as well as his method of editing and ordering the poems. He also chats about… Continue reading Lunar Poetry Podcasts
I usually think it's unnecessary to stipulate what age reader a poem (or any piece of writing) is for. I usually write for adults but I don't consciously consider what age they might be. In any case, I started reading books "for adults" when I wasn't even ten years old - as I'm sure is the… Continue reading A poem for young people on my SoundCloud page
I'm not really taking part in #NaPoWriMo this year although I do feel steeped in poetry. I have attempted to write (or at least start) a poem a day in the past and found it fun and exhilarating. I promised to review some poetry books for a magazine so I've been reading those and making slow… Continue reading A quick update during National Poetry Month
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.
Josephine Corcoran 
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