never knowingly without a pen
Like many people I've been thinking more and more about climate change, inspired by the activism of Greta Thunberg and others. Recent poetry events like the 2018 Ginkgo Prize readings at Poetry in Aldeburgh (by the way, the 2019 Ginkgo Prize - "the world's biggest ecopoetry prize" - has just launched) and the Autumn 2018… Continue reading Poetry responding to climate change
For my final March workshop at Trowbridge Museum, on UNESCO World Poetry Day, March 21, 2012, we started by reading Paul Farley's poem 'I Ran All the Way Home' (after Joe Brainard) and used the repeated phrase "I remember" as a warm-up exercise to write memories, as detailed or as fleeting as the group wished.… Continue reading Workshop Three at Trowbridge Museum: Simon Armitage and other poets
Josephine Corcoran 