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My main news is that, along with 30,000 other people world-wide, I've signed up for, and am into my second week of, the free, on-line, ten-week taster course in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, or ModPo, offered by the University of Pennsylvania using the Coursera on-line platform and featuring the charismatic and hugely knowledgeable Professor of Literature,… Continue reading 30,000 students but no-one has to share a desk!
Anita Chapman's interesting blogpost about the benefits and drawbacks of taking excerpts from the first draft of a novel to a writing workshop has got me thinking about when it's best to take poetry. At what stage of the writing process will scrutiny by others benefit a poem? It's a relevant question for me because I've… Continue reading When is the best time to workshop a poem?
...or perhaps it's a sign of things to come. I'm usually a slow, slow writer (took me FIVE YEARS to finish 'Honeymoon', a runner-up at Bridport in 2010 - I've written about that here) but this week I've dashed off two new poems, both inspired by these quick-as-a-flash poetry projects on the internet: The Queen… Continue reading Well, that was a first…
It's been almost two weeks since I started a separate blog for poems, 'And Other Poems'. At first I thought this would simply be an uncluttered space for my own poems but I quickly decided that I wanted to include other people's work. How, then, to acquire poems? Could I just select poems that I… Continue reading Hey Presto! Poems have arrived in my inbox.
Just back from a week's holiday in Brittany with my family. Our raincoats were packed but they never saw the light of day. For once, our holiday week coincided with the arrival of blue skies and unbroken sunshine. As we were only there for a week we decided to try to make the most of… Continue reading Holiday Blog. Sunshine and Jane Austen.
This week I attended a Networking Day organised by Cyprus Well, the Literature Development Agency for the South West of England. My thanks to David Woolley and Kate Wilson for arranging this day for writers wanting to expand their experience of working in community settings. Four writers, Phil Bowen, Ann Gray, Clive Hopwood and Cliff… Continue reading Triangle Sandwiches and Cups of Tea – Writers’ Networking Day
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