National Poetry Day at Trowbridge Town Hall

Trowbridge Town Hall was awash with poets and artists on National Poetry Day, October 6 2016. Ten local schools each … More

On the value of blogging.

I’m gratified by the number of likes, comments and visits I received to my Not Quite a Post post! It … More

It was very kind of Literature Works, the Literature Development Agency for South West England, to ask me to write … More

What are your ideas for commemorating the centenary of the start of the First World War which will, of course, … More

I said I’d post again before the daffodils came out in my garden, I looked away for one moment and … More

Students began by reading their stories from last week when they’d placed one of their own fictional characters in a … More

A summary of what we did…. Last week, among other things, we talked about how a character’s actions can reveal … More

We began by considering the following: writing what a character does is a way of revealing emotion or mood to … More

For those who couldn’t make it…. A summary of what we did. Confession: I stole the warm-up exercises from Vicki Feaver and Hugh … More

…….or, at least, his book of short stories, The Dubliners, did and this is just a quick post to say … More