Poetry, art, and translation, in collaboration

Cover of 'Six Poems' by Josephine Corcoran featuring an intaglio print by Pauline Scott-Garrett, a child's white dress on a blue background

Recently I've taken a detour from my slow-burning fiction writing (mentioned in a previous post) and dipped back into poetry to collaborate with artist Pauline Scott-Garrett, and Spanish tutor and film programmer Lorena Pino Montilla, on a poetry project. For some time, Pauline's art has engaged with issues surrounding human dislocation, displacement and exile, most… Continue reading Poetry, art, and translation, in collaboration

New poem at The Morning Star

Since I first published this post, I've added some more thoughts about documentary poetry and about my reasons for writing the poem 'Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe Says Sorry'. The poem came out of Andrea Brady's Documentary Poetics workshop at Poetry Swindon.  Andrea sent through excellent course materials and poems by writers such as Mahmoud Darwish, Carolyn Forché, Ken Saro-Wiwa… Continue reading New poem at The Morning Star