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This week the shortlist for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry was announced and - for the first time ever - one of the books I nominated for this prize has been selected. I think it's a strong list and I can't think of any other recent poetry award (can you?) that… Continue reading My poetry week
Artist Anita Taylor has written a terrific post at Wiltshire Council's arts blog giving some insight into the story (so far) of Drawing Projects UK which she and co-director Gary Sangster established in Trowbridge in 2015. As a Trowbridge resident for 15 years, I absolutely love Drawing Projects UK and I can't quite believe my… Continue reading Three years of Drawing Projects UK
Goodbye, January. You weren't that bad.... actually, you were bad but, weirdly, I still felt a tenderness towards you when I turned the page of our calendar. And just as you said goodbye and made way for February, you let fall a skyful of snow. which held me hostage in my house for a day… Continue reading Snowed in
A new poem of mine was commended in the Poetry Society's Stanza competition, a yearly event for people who are both members of the Poetry Society and a Stanza (poetry groups run voluntarily by Society members). As I've mentioned before, I organise the Trowbridge Stanza which meets on the first Saturday of every month at Drawing… Continue reading ‘To Bring Me Luck’ – new poem
Josephine Corcoran 
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