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I'm thrilled to be teaching some new poetry workshops at The Make Space, a dedicated learning and making space in Bradford on Avon, near the Tithe Barn. The Make Space is part of and next to the wonderful artisan shop Stone, Paper, Scissors. My first workshop runs across two weeks, on Tuesday mornings 10.30am -… Continue reading New Poetry Workshops in Bradford on Avon
Torriano Meeting House is hosting an exhibition and community arts project, bringing together poets and artists whose work explores the entangled relationship between text and textile. Drawing on the identity of the Torriano as a meeting house, the impetus of TEXTUS is interdisciplinary conversation and collaboration. The curators envision the selected poems and artworks as… Continue reading TEXTUS: in-between text and textile
This is just to say that I am experimenting with using Substack for a regular blog or newsletter. WordPress is not as easy to use as it used to be which is very offputting. I have no plans to close this site, and I will try hard not to cross-post (I have done that in… Continue reading Dipping my toe into Substack
It's been just over a month since the publication of my pamphlet Love and Stones, my first publication in five years, and it's been exciting to do readings again. With my fellow Live Canon pamphleteers, Isabella Mead and Matt Bryden, we had a great launch at The Bedford in Balham, on one of the very… Continue reading One month of ‘Love and Stones’
I have two poems from my new chapbook Love and Stones on New Writing, an online project showcasing new writing from alumni, staff and students from the University of East Anglia (where I completed my MA in Creative Writing in 1997). I'd recommend that you read the poems on a laptop or similar, if possible,… Continue reading Two poems from ‘Love and Stones’ at New Writing (UEA)
My new poetry chapbook Love and Stones is now available to pre-order from the small independent press Live Canon. Poems in this short collection are set where I live, against a Wiltshire backdrop of standing stones and henges, at the time of extreme heatwaves, a global pandemic and the start of the war in Ukraine.… Continue reading My new chapbook ‘Love and Stones’ is available to pre-order
Over the first May Bank Holiday weekend, I worked on my new chapbook/pamphlet Love and Stones published later this month by the small press Live Canon. This little book contains poems of love, family, and the climate crisis, set in a Wiltshire landscape of henges and standing stones at a time of heatwaves and the… Continue reading ‘Love and Stones’ my new chapbook coming soon
Some of you might have noticed that I deleted my previous post. Thank you if you read and commented. I deleted it after guidance from respected friends because there was a danger of centring myself in the issues I was discussing in the post, which was never my intention. April for me began with the… Continue reading April News
One of my visual poems has been posted online by Angel House Press. My thanks to editor Amanda Earl. I wrote something about this poem and my visual work for Amanda’s Substack newsletter which you can read here.
This post is a document of links to resources I've used in recent ecopoetry and nature poetry workshops and for my own writing. I've found these short films and poems helpful in classrooms, and elsewhere, in developing conversations and creative responses to the climate crisis. Some of the resources I mention were also included in… Continue reading Ecopoetry in the classroom and beyond – some resources and ideas
Josephine Corcoran 