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It's been ten days of highs and lows since I took a new, part-time job with The Reader Organisation. Probably the lowest hours were the five and a half spent travelling up to Liverpool on three, packed, over-heated trains, last Sunday afternoon and early evening. The purpose of the journey was so I could spend… Continue reading Work/Life/Writing Balance and a Book at Breakfast
This is the story of the first year of my poetry blog And Other Poems where I've posted over 200 poems by 177 poets Whether I continue to add poems to the blog will depend on the quality of work that’s sent to it and my own commitments. Anyone who has ever been involved in running… Continue reading One Year of Poems
It's times like this, when I'm a bit short of ideas, that I think it'd be nice to blog about cats. They're clearly loved by many, judging by the number of cute snapshots of handsome cats, or links to new cat poems, that appear, daily, in multiple places on the internet. As recently as… Continue reading Where are the Great Rabbit Poems?
I haven't posted for a while and here's what I've been up to... I put together 24 poems for a pamphlet competition and it took a lot of time, deciding which poems seemed good enough and which fitted the theme. Yes, a theme. I looked again at the poems I've written over the last four… Continue reading Writing themes, blogs and The Beatles.
Here is the first of my weekly NaPoWriMo updates. I won't be posting all 30 poems (30?! *gasp*) on this blog - maybe one or two - as I'd like to keep them available to send to magazines and competitions. I'm very grateful to Carrie Etter for suggesting I take part in this month-long poetry… Continue reading NaPoWriMo Week One (Never mind about dinner, is the poem written?)
I'm off to North Devon (in the South West of England) with limited internet access so I won't be posting for a while. As I've mentioned before I've signed up for NaPoWriMo (as suggested by Carrie Etter) as have many others, including publisher and writer Colin Will and writer and poetry activitist Flo Reynolds, whose… Continue reading Off to Devon and off-line
What are your ideas for commemorating the centenary of the start of the First World War which will, of course, take place next year? I went to a meeting last night organised by heritage and arts organisations in Wiltshire and there were some interesting proposals emerging. As well as telling the stories of those who… Continue reading WWI Centenary Projects
I've got into the habit of keeping a pen and notebook handy when I'm reading a book or magazine. Sometimes I simply copy lines of poetry I like into my journal, other times I might have a go at trying to put into words what it is about a phrase or word that has hi-jacked… Continue reading Keeping a reading journal, owning a poem, crocuses
Josephine Corcoran 
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