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Just saying hello before I head off for four days at The Swindon Poetry Festival. I feel like someone leaving home for university, except it's a university of poetry. Actually, knowing Hilda Sheehan who's organised the festival, it will be more like a UNIVERSE of poetry in Swindon. I can't wait! I'm packing writing materials,… Continue reading Next stop Swindon Poetry Festival
My month off seems like a far away country, yet it's only been 12 days since I've been back at work. Thank goodness my job involves reading poetry, and thank goodness for Anthony Wilson's Lifesaving Poems series on his wonderful blog (soon to be made into a book by one of the UK's leading poetry… Continue reading Lifesaving Poems Saved the Day
I'm back to work tomorrow and I'm feeling low that my month off has come to an end. I'm pleased that I've managed to work on my pamphlet and now have 18 poems which are as ready as they'll ever be to send to the printers - although I haven't had a lot of contact… Continue reading The holiday’s over…
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
In August 2012 I started a poetry blog, an uncluttered, ad-free site, called And Other Poems. Two years, 262 poets and more than 425 poems later, And Other Poems is going to take a rest. There will be five more posts next week so please don't abandon ship yet. If you haven't been following,… Continue reading Announcement about And Other Poems
You might remember that me and my family hosted two teenagers from Bethlehem last year, when we took part in a cultural exchange programme organised by Bradford-on-Avon Friends of Palestine. It was a wonderful experience for us to learn more about Palestinians and their culture and we've been watching recent events unfold in Gaza with… Continue reading Gaza: trying to do something other than cry
I was in Liverpool for a few days recently and taken to see Antony Gormley's public art piece 'Another Place', on Crosby Beach. This installation comprises 100 life-size, cast iron figures looking out to sea - to "another place". The sculptures, which are of the artist's own, naked body, are spread along three kilometres of the shoreline and… Continue reading Antony Gormley’s ‘Another Place’, Crosby Beach
In no particular order, here's some online and offline stuff I've enjoyed in 2013. Two great blogposts I love following Isabel Rogers on twitter and this year I got to meet her at The Live Canon Poetry Competition Prize Giving. Here's her fantastic blogpost about that event. In fact, 2013 was a bumper year for… Continue reading Skip to the good bits
Josephine Corcoran 
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