After a sell-out course in 2016 in St Ives, I’m really pleased to announce that I’ll be co-tutoring another residential poetry course at Treloyhan Manor Hotel in St Ives, from the 20th-26th February 2017. I’m very excited to announce that…
A Review of the 2015 Poetry Carousel
The poet Elisabeth Sennit Clough was one of the 32 participants on last year’s sold out Poetry Carousel. I asked Elisabeth to write an account of what the experience was like. If you’ve been debating about whether to come,…
Clare Shaw at Kendal Poetry Festival — Kendal Poetry Festival
When we applied for Arts Council funding last year, our venue, the Abbot Hall Art Gallery had a small cafe on site. However, Kendal suffered terribly in the floods, and the cafe at Abbot Hall is now unusable. Pauline and…
Sunday Poem – Anna Lewis
I’m writing this very late at night, because instead of getting on with my blog post, I distracted myself with watching the highlights of the London marathon. This is the first year I’ve not watched it on the television. I’ve…
Sunday Poem – Katrina Naomi
Today has consisted of an 11k run in the morning, and then stripping wallpaper from a ceiling in my living room. We started stripping the wallpaper off the actual walls in this room a while ago, which wasn’t too traumatizing,…
Sunday Poem – John Foggin
Last week has been unusual for me because I’ve managed to get some writing done. It’s not a surprise that this has coincided with the school holidays. Although I only teach two days a week, which doesn’t sound like very…
Blog Post From Kendal Poetry Festival
Below is the latest blog post from the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival (myself and Pauline Yarwood) If you would like to receive regular updates from the Festival Team, please head over to our website, www.kendalpoetryfestival.co.uk and sign up to…
Sunday Poem – Meg Cox
I can’t believe it is already the end of the first week of the Easter Holidays. I’m feeling much better than I was feeling last Sunday which is a relief. The last week has been a busy one, leaving me…
Sunday Poem – Maurice Riordan
A couple of my friends have been saying to me for a while that I need to slow down and start taking it easy and I’ve pretty much been nodding, agreeing but ignoring them. It all caught up with me this week…
Kendal Poetry Festival
If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you will, by now, know that the website for Kendal Poetry Festival has finally gone live! You can find us at www.kendalpoetryfestival.co.uk. The festival will take place from the 24th-26th June 2016,…