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A solo parent Monday to Friday, this all-day, Saturday workshop, part of the 2012 Swindon Festival of Poetry, fitted in with my plans perfectly. As with other workshops I've been to recently, The Poetics of Things was organised by the wonderful, Swindon-based poet, Hilda Sheehan, who does so much to bring poetry to Swindon and… Continue reading The Poetics of Things workshop with Robert Vas Dias
...or perhaps it's a sign of things to come. I'm usually a slow, slow writer (took me FIVE YEARS to finish 'Honeymoon', a runner-up at Bridport in 2010 - I've written about that here) but this week I've dashed off two new poems, both inspired by these quick-as-a-flash poetry projects on the internet: The Queen… Continue reading Well, that was a first…
It's been almost two weeks since I started a separate blog for poems, 'And Other Poems'. At first I thought this would simply be an uncluttered space for my own poems but I quickly decided that I wanted to include other people's work. How, then, to acquire poems? Could I just select poems that I… Continue reading Hey Presto! Poems have arrived in my inbox.
I'm thrilled to be posting a long out of print poem of Ian Duhig's on my poetry blog today. You can read The Irish Slave here. I am so grateful to Ian for his generosity in sharing this and for sending the following notes, with fascinating links, which help to unravel the poem's mesmerising story.… Continue reading Footnote to Ian Duhig’s poem, ‘The Irish Slave’.
I'm pleased to have a new poem on the excellent webzine, Ink, Sweat & Tears, edited by poet and artist Helen Ivory, which publishes an absorbing mix of poetry, flash fiction, book reviews and word and image pieces. I always feel a tingle of happiness when someone indicates that they like what I've written, and it's even… Continue reading Whose Poem is it, Anyway?
I'm pleased to have another small story, 'Snowdrops', on Paragraph Planet today. Paragraph Planet publishes a daily story; no line breaks are allowed, all writing is presented in one small paragraph and must be of exactly 75 words, including the title. However, when I started writing 'Snowdrops, I wasn't sure if it was a line… Continue reading Poem or Flash Fiction? You decide!
The anthology A Complicated Way of Being Ignored, edited by Michael Stewart and featuring poems by C J Allen, Sharon Black, Rosie Blagg, Nina Boyd, Geraldine Clarkson, Julia Deakin, Julie Mellor, Ian McEwen and other poets, including me, is available to buy at Amazon. The book was reviewed by Ian McMillan in the Yorkshire Post.
I took part in a Poetry Event at Stafford Library on Tuesday evening so I thought I'd share my experience and thoughts about giving a poetry reading. I was given one of three 20 minute slots and the evening included the Prize Giving of the 2012 Stafford Poetry Competition, run by Staffordshire Libraries and supported by… Continue reading Giving a Poetry Reading
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