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A quick post to tell you I'm thrilled that And Other Poems, the poetry site I founded in 2012 and edited until earlier this year, is now owned and edited by poet and research student Tom Bailey, sponsored by Alvin Pang. Submissions are opening soon so do give them a follow. And Other Poems has… Continue reading New Editor at And Other Poems
I ran another visual poetry workshop for Trowbridge Museum in February, I wrote something about the first one here, and there is one more scheduled for Saturday, 18th March, 10.30am - 12.30pm. The starting point of each workshop has been the work of poet George Crabbe, particularly his herbarium of dried plants and flowers, and… Continue reading February Update
I'm delighted that one of the poems first published at And Other Poems, the online site I edit, has been highly commended in this year's Forward Prize for Best Single Poem and published in their annual anthology. The poem is 'Personality Test with Worked Examples' by Richard Price and can be viewed at And Other… Continue reading Richard Price’s poem, first published at And Other Poems, commended in the Forward Prizes
What a pipsqueak of a month February is. Over in the blink of an eye, or perhaps that's just me experiencing time whizzing past as I grow older. I finished the Papatango online playwriting course at the beginning of the month. Taking part in the course enabled me to edit and finish an audio play… Continue reading No Big Leaps in February
The subtitle of this post could be "Hold your phone sideways" since this is the best way to read poems on websites if you're reading from your phone. Once you do it, you'll never regret it. This month, my poetry site And Other Poems opened its doors again after a twenty month break. I… Continue reading November 2020 at And Other Poems
When 2020 began, it wasn't my intention to return to my poetry site And Other Poems - to be honest, I've been enjoying not reading through submitted poems, replying to enquiries, accepting or rejecting poems (never easy to say "no thank you" to someone, especially people who I count as friends or who I've got to… Continue reading Reading many poems
Most of you know that I founded and edited a poetry site called And Other Poems for six years and retired the site at the end of 2018. One of my final jobs as editor was to nominate three poems for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem and I'm pleased to say that Sarah… Continue reading Sarah Hymas’ poem at And Other Poems in this year’s Forward Prizes
There's an excellent interview with poet and editor Rishi Dastidar at Lunar Poetry. Rishi talks about his approach to putting together his debut poetry collection Ticker-Tape (Nine Arches, 2017) and explains how he first approached Jane Commane at Nine Arches, as well as his method of editing and ordering the poems. He also chats about… Continue reading Lunar Poetry Podcasts
The Forward Arts Foundation, sponsors of The Forward Prizes for Poetry, has announced that this year, for the first time, online journals based in the UK and Ireland are permitted to nominate up to two poems from their sites for consideration in the Prize for Best Single Poem. There are further guidelines for eligibility, available here,… Continue reading UK online poetry journals now eligible to submit to Forward Prize
My poetry site And Other Poems turned three years old in August. What started as an uncluttered place for my own poems has grown into an online anthology of over 350 poems by more than 250 poets, archived at The British Library, and viewed more than 125,000 times. In September 2015, my post 'Three poems by Tania Hershman' was… Continue reading Three years of ‘And Other Poems’.
Josephine Corcoran 