Hello everybody! Today I’ve been reading John Burnside’s ‘A Hunt in the Forest’ and sorting out all my poems, with the view to starting to work on the manuscript for my first collection. I’ve been wafting about saying ‘I’m not…
Highlights of 2012
By now, most people have already done their 2012 round ups. However, I’ve been in Leicester for the week before Christmas, and then North Wales for the week after Christmas, and I’ve finally got back to Barrow today. At first I…
Here is a great post by Abegaiil Morley. She has asked lots of poets to recommend their favourite reads of the year – I’ve already got my reading list for 2013 sorted from this. Wish I’d thought of this idea!
2012 in review
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…