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This week, in my new role as project worker for The Reader Organisation (TRO), I’ve been working hard to get ready for the shared reading groups that I’ll be facilitating, very soon, in Wiltshire. This work has involved lots of reading. Yes, I’ve been slaving over some good books. My first session for people with… Continue reading Slaving over a good book
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 week, me and my family hosted two 14-year-old girls from Palestine, visiting Wiltshire on a cultural exchange programme organised by Bradford-on-Avon Friends of Palestine. The girls are two of fourteen dancers, singers and drummers from the Hakaya Group who train at The Ghirass Cultural Centre in Bethlehem. The Centre was set up in 1993… Continue reading Hosting Two Teenagers from Palestine
Here are some I've bought or been given within the last two years. You might recognise a few of them. Don't the ones with strong coloured covers stand out? (even on my stripy rug!) I like single collections - full collections, that is - but if you're not overly familiar with a poet's work, you… Continue reading I love Poetry Pamphlets
POST UPDATED 22 APRIL 2024 - STEPHEN LAWRENCE DAY I first shared this poem over ten years ago when it was first published at The Morning Star. Since then, it's been shared many times and republished in many different places including in my first poetry book. It's available to read on my Instagram. The original… Continue reading My poem about Stephen Lawrence
My biggest news is that I was shortlisted for The Rialto/Poetry School Poetry Editor Development Programme but I wasn't successful. In a case of unfortunate timing, the interviews were scheduled to take place bang in the middle of my family holiday in western France so my 'meeting' with Michael Mackmin (Editor at The Rialto) and… Continue reading A shortlist, a tumblr and let’s accidentally connect!
...and other thoughts from when I was abroad.... I'm just back from a happy week in western Brittany with my family. I really enjoy seeing my name emblazoned on mugs, bowls, key rings and other such items when I'm in France, the extra accent on the first 'e' is the icing on le gâteau, and, frankly,… Continue reading Je m’appelle Joséphine
It seems that some people are already off on their travels for the summer. There have been tweets and blogposts from glamorous-sounding European cities and far-flung mountain ranges. I can hear the suitcases and rucksacks being dragged from the tops of wardrobes, the snap of elastic as last year's swimsuits are optimistically pinged into place… Continue reading Summer’s here and I’m still writing
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.
And now, the end is near ..and so I face My friends, I'll say it clear... On 30th April I I won't have written 30 publishable poems, of that I'm certain. But I've written some and certainly more than I would have done if I hadn't signed up. I've loved the extra focus. It's… Continue reading NaPoWriMo: I did it my way
Josephine Corcoran 
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