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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
Unfortunately, I'm a bit ill at the moment. I had to miss a scheduled reading in Brighton on Thursday which I'm very sad about. I hope to be able to read there another time. I've written a post on Substack with links to poems that have kept me going in the last two weeks, and… Continue reading October Notes
I had wonderful time in Liverpool launching my limited edition, handstitched pamphlet One Deliberate Red Dress Time I Shone at the Open Eye Gallery. A massive thank you to writer and artist Maria Isakova Bennett, founder of the Coast to Coast to Coast project, who makes the very beautiful poetry journals for the winners in… Continue reading One Deliberate Red Dress Time I Shone
It's been an enjoyable and busy few months since my pamphlet Love and Stones was published by Live Canon Poetry at the end of May. I feel lucky to have been invited to read in some beautiful and welcoming places where I've made new friends and had fun chatting all things poetry at some great… Continue reading September and ahead: some workshops and readings
I'm thrilled to be teaching some new poetry workshops at The Make Space, a dedicated learning and making space in Bradford on Avon, near the Tithe Barn. The Make Space is part of and next to the wonderful artisan shop Stone, Paper, Scissors. My first workshop runs across two weeks, on Tuesday mornings 10.30am -… Continue reading New Poetry Workshops in Bradford on Avon
It's been just over a month since the publication of my pamphlet Love and Stones, my first publication in five years, and it's been exciting to do readings again. With my fellow Live Canon pamphleteers, Isabella Mead and Matt Bryden, we had a great launch at The Bedford in Balham, on one of the very… Continue reading One month of ‘Love and Stones’
I have two poems from my new chapbook Love and Stones on New Writing, an online project showcasing new writing from alumni, staff and students from the University of East Anglia (where I completed my MA in Creative Writing in 1997). I'd recommend that you read the poems on a laptop or similar, if possible,… Continue reading Two poems from ‘Love and Stones’ at New Writing (UEA)
My new poetry chapbook Love and Stones is now available to pre-order from the small independent press Live Canon. Poems in this short collection are set where I live, against a Wiltshire backdrop of standing stones and henges, at the time of extreme heatwaves, a global pandemic and the start of the war in Ukraine.… Continue reading My new chapbook ‘Love and Stones’ is available to pre-order
Some of you might have noticed that I deleted my previous post. Thank you if you read and commented. I deleted it after guidance from respected friends because there was a danger of centring myself in the issues I was discussing in the post, which was never my intention. April for me began with the… Continue reading April News
One of my visual poems has been posted online by Angel House Press. My thanks to editor Amanda Earl. I wrote something about this poem and my visual work for Amanda’s Substack newsletter which you can read here.
Josephine Corcoran 