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Artist and curator Su Fahy has made this short film 'Borderland Flow' in a tribute to Pauline Scott-Garrett who died in April this year, as I mentioned in my previous post. The images in the film are from Pauline's November 2024 installation at Walcott Chapel, Bath, which was curated by Su Fahy and Patricia O'Brien.… Continue reading Borderland Flow
Today, we said goodbye to artist Pauline Scott-Garrett who died in early April. I was so glad to have known Pauline over the years, and honoured to collaborate with her last year when I wrote a zine of poems in response to her beautiful series of collage and intaglio prints, BORDERLAND, which engaged with a… Continue reading Pauline Scott-Garrett
It's already nearly mid-February so I thought I'd write a quick blog. As I mentioned before I've been focusing on recovering from a small health issue and that is going very well. I've also been reading and notetaking, not writing as much as I would like, starting projects and getting stuck, becoming distracted... and, talking… Continue reading Not blogging, or writing, but…
Today, I'm sharing my poem 'Six', and its Spanish translation by Lorena Pino Montilla, 'Seis', from my zine Six Poems, written to accompany 'Borderland' (Walcot Chapel, Bath 29 October - 2 November) an exhibition of collage and intaglio print by Pauline Scott-Garrett responding to Donald Trump's 2018 zero-tolerance immigration policy which enforced the separating of… Continue reading Six/Seis by Josephine Corcoran and Lorena Pino Montilla
A quick post in connection with my previous post about making a zine, since a few of you have asked. I searched 'how to make a zine' on the internet and found this handy post by Niina Pollari and Nitsuh Abebe on the KickStarter News Archive. I also messaged Sophie Herxheimer and she pointed me to her… Continue reading How I made a poetry zine
I'm still here, beavering away with pen and notebooks, typing up multiple drafts of assembled words which might pass as 'stories' (or, more accurately, beginnings of stories) and printing them out to re-write and edit, collecting many reams of paper in the meantime. In 2020, my aim was to write fiction again, rather than poetry,… Continue reading Just to say…
My thanks to artist, writer and publisher Jeremy Dixon for sharing the open callout from WBN2024 and WBN United Artists for a postcard exhibition organised by Sarah Bodman and Linda Parr at The Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England (UWE). The theme for WBN2024 is In Praise of Birds. WBN United… Continue reading World Book Night 2024 – In Praise of Birds
I'm thrilled to have been asked to take part in this year's West of England Festival of Textiles (WEFT) which is held biannually at Trowbridge Museum. I'll be talking about and reading poems from my pamphlet One Deliberate Red Dress Time I Shone at Trowbridge Museum on Friday, 17 May, 5.30pm - 6.45pm. Tickets for… Continue reading Poetry, Pimm’s and Punch at Trowbridge Museum Friday 17 May, 5.30pm – 6.45pm
I haven't blogged here for a while. It's partly because WordPress isn't such a great platform to blog on anymore - forgive the *moan* but it's nowhere near as easy to use as it used to be - and it's partly because I've been busy elsewhere doing lovely things. Last year, I published two poetry pamphlets with… Continue reading On Being Elsewhere
It's been one month since members of Hamas broke through the Gaza-Israel barrier and killed 1400 Israelis, as well as taking over 200 people hostage, including children. Since then, Israel has continually bombed Gaza, resulting in over 10,000 Palestinian deaths, including over 4,000 children. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict didn't begin on October 7, of course, although… Continue reading Guilt and Empathy
Josephine Corcoran 