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Kim Moore, Ian Duhig and Sophie Hannah gave wonderful readings on the opening night of the festival. It really is a pleasure to hear poems you think you know quite well read aloud. Even if you've read them many times in magazines, websites, in collections and at award evenings, something surprising and new often turns… Continue reading Winchester Poetry Festival Diary: Day One (Part Two).
So here I am, safely installed in a delightful airbnb very close to the centre of Winchester. I have a Festival Pass in my hands and I'm going to make the most of it. I'll report back, in between attending events, starting with a few things I went to yesterday. The opening event was a… Continue reading Winchester Poetry Festival Diary: Day One (Part One)
The theme for this year's National Poetry Day in the UK is 'messages'. As Poet in Residence at Trowbridge Town Hall, I've been working with artist Ben Midgley on a new poem which we will share with school students and other visitors to the Town Hall on National Poetry Day, October 6. Local school students from primary and… Continue reading A poem for National Poetry Day 2016
Ahead of Winchester Poetry Festival which runs from Friday 7 October to Sunday 9 October, and because I'm teaching some poetry workshops for children at Trowbridge Town Hall on National Poetry Day (October 6), I've been re-reading a 2015 issue of Modern Poetry in Translation magazine which had a focus on children's poetry in translation.… Continue reading Thinking about Children’s Poetry
I had a wonderful time reading with Louisa Adjoa Parker at Schumacher College, Dartington, Devon, on August 3rd for The Enemies Project South West Poetry Tour. You can read more about The Enemies Project here. It's a project that started in 2011, dreamed up by poet and artist Stephen Fowler, which facilitates new collaborative creative works. So far… Continue reading Writing a collaborative poem
Reading Ruby Robinson’s debut collection Every Little Sound (Liverpool University Press, 2016) in the early days of the EU Referendum result, my ears were still ringing with one of the Leave campaign’s key slogans: “Take back Control,” an imperative phrase masquerading as a promise of freedom, and a reminder of the power dynamics at work in… Continue reading Review of ‘Every Little Sound’ by Ruby Robinson
Anthony Wilson has written about my poem 'You say drone' from my pamphlet The Misplaced House in his Lifesaving Poems feature. I first read You say “drone” on the Poems in Which website, Issue 4 (2013). What struck me then, and still amazes me now, is its controlled fury while retaining its central identity as a made… Continue reading ‘You say drone’ featured at Lifesaving Poems
Before I attend Claire Trévien's Poetry Reviewing Workshop later on today, I thought, in best Blue Peter tradition, I'd link to some reviews I wrote earlier. I've posted reviews of two poetry collections on this blog, Riddance by Anthony Wilson and The Night my Sister went to Hollywood by Hilda Sheehan. I have three OPOI reviews at Sphinx… Continue reading Some Poetry Reviews
'Picnic' a tiny poem I wrote for Manchester Review's 2014 micropoem competition (it came second) has received a delicious write-up in Hazel Burke's poetry column at Standard Issue magazine. The best treats come as surprises. Do have a read of Hazel's column and dive into Standard Issue.
Can I sound you out about something? What do you prefer reading, pamphlets or full collections? Do you buy either, both, or none? What about writing? Have you published a pamphlet or a full collection or both? Which came first? Why? Have you published more than one pamphlet? Have you NEVER published a pamphlet? Did… Continue reading Pamphlet or full collection?
Josephine Corcoran 