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Week 3. Poem count so far : 18 Three missing poems but no lost days because that was when I spread four years worth of poems across my sitting room floor and began to dare to believe that I might have enough poems strong enough to submit to a pamphlet competition. The extra poetry… Continue reading NaPoWriMo: 21 days and a brace of workshops
I'd be lying if I said that NaPoWriMo Week 2 has run smoothly. Margaret Thatcher died on Monday and my timelines have been ablaze with articles, opinions, debates, anecdotes and rants. It's been a distracting week. Personally, I wasn't a fan of Thatcher or Thatcherism and the news of her death and the ensuing brouhaha… Continue reading Don’t mention the T word – NaPoWriMo Week 2
Just back from four days in Devon. Here are some snaps of my energetic family (one husband, two children aged 13 and 12) walking and cycling ahead of me. If I'd taken a waterproof camera I could also have shown you photos of them swimming, far, far ahead of me. No swimming in the sea… Continue reading Holiday Blog – very happy to be left behind
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
February already and what is everyone up to? I really enjoy Robin Houghton's blog so I thought I would follow her example and share some of what's been happening in my life. Robin reports regularly on what she's reading, where she's sending her poetry and where it's been accepted/rejected. She also shares information gleaned from… Continue reading Reading, Writing, Rejections, Acceptance
Back in July I wrote a post about the first six months of the year and my resolutions for the second half of 2012 which were to: Read widely, read critically, read for pleasure. Continue to write daily and submit regularly to competitions and for publication. Continue to gain experience as a tutor and workshop… Continue reading First of the month, end of the year…almost
Not another day must go by without me saying how much I enjoyed this recent workshop, another writing session organised by Hilda Sheehan who had recruited Martin Malone at the 11th hour to replace an unwell Carrie Etter (now, happily, recovered). Martin introduced himself by stating that what he wanted most when he signed up for a… Continue reading Poetry Workshop with Martin Malone
Speeding through ModPo and I could do with a few 36 hour days and/or a better brain. I seem to be spending more time watching discussions about poetry rather than reading poetry and I am starting to feel like a child at the fairground trying to catch up with the merry-go-round. One of the disadvantages… Continue reading ModPo: Seven chapters in and flagging a bit
ModPo is racing on; we are now starting Week Five of this ten week course. My highlights last week were listening to a Penn Sound recording of Gertrude Stein reading her poem If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso (1912) and watching an extract from Shutters Shut, a dance choreographed by Paul Lightfoot… Continue reading The music of Gertrude Stein
Waking at 3am on Saturday and finding myself unable to get back to sleep, I came downstairs in my pyjamas, made a cup of tea and plugged into the final readings for Week 3 of ModPo. I love this course! Hilda Doolittle (known as H.D.), Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams were the poets we… Continue reading Modern and Contemporary American Poetry: Catching Up at 3AM
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