never knowingly without a pen
My poetry book What Are You After? is now available to pre-order direct from Nine Arches Press. I thought I'd share my new book cover with you and tell you something about how it came about. It features a painting 'Transient II' by my friend and artist Mary Petrovska. Mary is one of the first… Continue reading My book cover
Dashing off a quick post to try to keep to my weekly blog plan as part of the Poet Bloggers 2018 Revival Tour. I'm knee-deep in old notebooks this week, as I flounder inside the messy and muddy quagmire that is my poetry manuscript. I've spent the past two days holed-up inside my house, as… Continue reading Keeping a poetry reading journal
I had my very first real life meeting with Jane Commane from Nine Arches Press on Friday. Nine Arches is based in the Midlands and I live in West Wiltshire, on the border of Somerset in the west of England, so we met in the cafe of the Friends House, by Euston Station in London. It's… Continue reading Towards a poetry collection
I like this contemplative post by Charlotte Gann about the reasons she's drawn to Stevie Smith's poem 'Not Waving but Drowning'. The poem ‘Not Waving but Drowning’ by Stevie Smith is only twelve lines long. Yet, the first time I read it, it created in my mind, for evermore, a whole world – and life story. Not… Continue reading Posts from poetry blogs I’ve enjoyed reading this week
Josephine Corcoran 