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Poetry, art, and translation, in collaboration

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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

Just to say…

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sweetpeas from my garden in a small jar of water

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…