This week I have been to three poetry events. Tuesday night was a reading at the Wordsworth Trust with Mike Barlow and Mimi Khalvati. Mike was his usual fabulous self and Mimi’s reading was exceptional. Mimi was warm and generous with…
Sunday Poem 7-Me!
In a completely self obsessed way, I haven’t managed to get a Sunday poem from anyone this week. My week has been taken over by the imminent arrival of my pamphlet, which started to take on the quality of a…
Sunday Poem 6 – David Tait
The Sunday poem for this week is ‘End Credits’ by David Tait. David Tait was one of the winners of the Poetry Business Pamphlet competition last year, judged by Simon Armitage. Simon Armitage said of his poems: ‘Careful and concise…
Writers and strange childhood games
Two days ago, the PBS choice arrived – always a time of excitement in my house. I love getting books in the post. This quarter’s choice is Paul Farley’s ‘The Dark Film’. He’s not a poet that I’ve read very…
News
I was trying to think of a more exciting title than ‘News’ for this post, but couldn’t think of one, so there it stands. I have lots of news, or new things that have happened in the last couple of…
The Sunday Poem 5 – Suzannah Evans
For once, I’m going to be in good time for this week’s Sunday poem! Let me introduce Suzannah Evans, who was one of the other winners of the Poetry Business pamphlet competition this year (www.poetrybusiness.co.uk ) She will also be…
Pamphlet proofs
I’ve just sent back the proofs for my pamphlet to Peter Sansom. Peter sent them to me last week, and I got back to him with some slight amendments, so this is the second time that I’ve looked through them. …
Poetry Workshop
My next poetry workshop will be on June 9th at Barrow Library at 1.00pm-.3.30pm again. The theme for this workshop will be ‘Editing and Redrafting’. The first half of the session will be looking at general editing techniques using examples…
The Sunday Poem 4 – Manon Ceridwen
For my fourth Sunday poem, I asked one of my good friends Manon Ceridwen to send me a couple of her poems which are personal favourites of mine. Manon and I met at Ty Newydd (www.tynewydd.org) – the Welsh equivalent…
Funerals, Family and Flowers
Today I had the day off work to go to my Uncle Pete’s funeral. Pete was born on the 18th October 1956 and died on the 23rd April 2012. Pete was my dad’s youngest brother, and younger brother to Carol…