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It's already nearly mid-February so I thought I'd write a quick blog. As I mentioned before I've been focusing on recovering from a small health issue and that is going very well. I've also been reading and notetaking, not writing as much as I would like, starting projects and getting stuck, becoming distracted... and, talking… Continue reading Not blogging, or writing, but…
Today, I'm sharing my poem 'Six', and its Spanish translation by Lorena Pino Montilla, 'Seis', from my zine Six Poems, written to accompany 'Borderland' (Walcot Chapel, Bath 29 October - 2 November) an exhibition of collage and intaglio print by Pauline Scott-Garrett responding to Donald Trump's 2018 zero-tolerance immigration policy which enforced the separating of… Continue reading Six/Seis by Josephine Corcoran and Lorena Pino Montilla
A quick post in connection with my previous post about making a zine, since a few of you have asked. I searched 'how to make a zine' on the internet and found this handy post by Niina Pollari and Nitsuh Abebe on the KickStarter News Archive. I also messaged Sophie Herxheimer and she pointed me to her… Continue reading How I made a poetry zine
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…
I haven't blogged here for a while. It's partly because WordPress isn't such a great platform to blog on anymore - forgive the *moan* but it's nowhere near as easy to use as it used to be - and it's partly because I've been busy elsewhere doing lovely things. Last year, I published two poetry pamphlets with… Continue reading On Being Elsewhere
I had wonderful time in Liverpool launching my limited edition, handstitched pamphlet One Deliberate Red Dress Time I Shone at the Open Eye Gallery. A massive thank you to writer and artist Maria Isakova Bennett, founder of the Coast to Coast to Coast project, who makes the very beautiful poetry journals for the winners in… Continue reading One Deliberate Red Dress Time I Shone
Over the first May Bank Holiday weekend, I worked on my new chapbook/pamphlet Love and Stones published later this month by the small press Live Canon. This little book contains poems of love, family, and the climate crisis, set in a Wiltshire landscape of henges and standing stones at a time of heatwaves and the… Continue reading ‘Love and Stones’ my new chapbook coming soon
I've been having a lovely time making visual poems for my workshops at Trowbridge Museum which I wrote about here. This work lead me to think about ways to extend my visual poetry practice, greatly helped by an article by Geof Huth at the Poetry Foundation, and, in particular, the following quotes which gave me… Continue reading January Update
I have a new poem published in Poetry Ireland Review, issue 137 edited by Gerald Dawe. The poem 'High Summer World of Light' takes as its starting point a 2009 abstract painting of the same name by Gillian Ayres. High Summer World of Light, 2009 by Gillian Ayres It's my first time in the magazine… Continue reading A Poem in Poetry Ireland Review
I have new poems out in current issues of two poetry magazines. Magma has published my poem 'Seen while walking: one high-heeled boot, black suede, in a public flower bed' in its 'Solitude' issue. This is my first time in Magma after submitting multiple times. This poem was one of a series I wrote last… Continue reading Two New Poems in Magma Poetry and Raceme magazine
Josephine Corcoran 