The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 7,800 views in 2012. If every person who reached the…
Sunday Poem – Melissa Lee-Houghton
Hello everyone – This will be my last update before Christmas Day – tomorrow we are off down to Leicester to my parents for Christmas. I don’t know what the drive is going to be like, as looking at the…
Sunday Poem – Carola Luther
Evening everybody. Today’s Sunday Poem is by Carola Luther. Carola is the first poet to feature twice on this blog – but I had to – because she launched her new pamphlet ‘Herd’ from the Wordsworth Trust recently and this…
Sunday Poem – David Borrott and Carolling in the Supermarkets…
I’ve had a really lovely weekend. And its not over yet! On Saturday morning I met with about 15 members of the Barrow Shipyard Junior Band and we went carolling in Morrisons to raise money for the band funds. I…
The Next Big Thing
Iwas recently asked by Sarah Hymas http://sarahhymas.blogspot.co.uk/to take part in a blogging project call The Next Big Thing. It entails a whole bunch of writers answering a set of questions about a book they’ve either recently published or one they’re…
Royal Exchange Reading with Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, Charmain Leung and Carly Hind
Evening folks. I have so much to tell you all – don’t know whether to try and squeeze it into one blog post or to try and spread it out a bit…. I”ll start and when I get bored…well I’ll…
Sunday Poem – Fiona Sampson
Good morning everybody! Today I am spending the day on the sofa in my sleeping bag, trying to recover from a horrible cold. Normally I tend to ignore colds and just carry on doing what ever I’m doing however, I…
Residential Course – Abbot Hall
Residential Course – Abbot Hall.
Sunday Poem – Alex MacDonald
Evening folks I’ve had quite a nice poetry week this week – On Friday my copies of Ambit arrived with a really nice review of my pamphlet by Donald Gardner. And I also got an acceptance from Acumen for a…
The Lampeter Review and Manon Ceridwen’s Blog
Hi everyone – Issue 6 of a really great online magazine – the Lampeter Review which has a poem of mine in and some great short stories and poems by new and established writers http://lampeter-review.com/ And an interesting blog post…
