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Julia Copus and Patrick Gale reading at Trowbridge Library, Thursday, November 27th, 7.30pm Book your FREE tickets by calling Trowbridge Library on 01225 716700 The reading, at Trowbridge Library on Thursday, 27th November at 7.30pm, is part of a SW England Library promotion called the Reading Passport. It features award-winning poet and children's story writer Julia Copus, and novelist… Continue reading Free tickets to see top writers at Trowbridge Library
Lose yourself all over again. Join in with #LossLit. Tweet your creative responses to do with 'loss'. It's been two weeks since writers Kit Caless and Aki Schilz, co-creators of#LossLit on Twitter and Storify, talked to me about this exciting and innovative project which invites and curates submissions of tweet-sized micropoems and microfictions to do… Continue reading Get ready for another #LossLit evening.
I'm just back from a week in southern Spain with my family. As well as swimwear and sundresses, I packed my notebooks, pens, draft poems and plenty of reading material, including these two books by Vicki Feaver. Vicki was kind enough to send two new poems from her forthcoming collection to my poetry blog, And… Continue reading Postcard from Spain.
It's been two weeks since I switched off my work emails and mobile phone and promised myself I'd focus on my forthcoming poetry pamphlet. I started the holiday in de-cluttering mode, paying particular attention to the oceans of multiple drafts of poems swimming through my house. I know that some poets never throw any of their… Continue reading Writing in between catching up with family.
I'm writing this post at 8pm on Saturday, 9th August. I'm in bed, eating an apple, there's an oversized mug of liquorice tea on the windowsill, a pile of notebooks, pens, poetry books and magazines sinking into the mattress next to me like a silent lover. Ooo-er. We're not long back from a 12 mile… Continue reading Weekly update from bed
It's about six months since, working for The Reader Organisation, I set up four, weekly, read aloud, shared reading groups for people with dementia (or other illnesses affecting their memory) and their carers. Three of the four groups, at libraries in Warminster, Mere and Pewsey, are still up and running, but I've moved the fourth group from Purton… Continue reading Reading with people who have dementia in Wiltshire
This week's photo challenge, 'On the Move', has made me think of all the time I've spent (years, probably, if I added it up) staring through the windows of buses and trains. The photo of my son, taken several years ago while we were on holiday in Devon when he was about eight years old, could… Continue reading Glassy-eyed, on the move, between places
This week's photo challenge from WordPress is 'Letters' and it's reminded me of a picture that my daughter, Kitty, created ten years ago when she was four years old. She hadn't long learned to write, you can tell from the careful way she formed these letters, some of them with a tiny curl or tail, in readiness… Continue reading Some where skys are blue
Getting to know people through their writing. I met my husband, Andrew Horsfall, in September 1993 while we were students at West Sussex Institute of Higher Education (now University of Chichester) and we lived on campus at Bishop Otter College, Chichester, in a small 1930s block of student accommodation called New Hall (now, I believe,… Continue reading How I met my husband
People keep telling me how much they enjoy coming to the Library Memory Groups I facilitate for The Reader Organisation in libraries in Wiltshire. They sound surprised, as if they didn't know or had forgotten that reading could give them pleasure. These groups are weekly, read aloud, shared reading groups for people with dementia or… Continue reading How about reading workshops as well as writing workshops?
Josephine Corcoran 