Sad to read this story from Ian Clayton about writing for the local paper and then being laid off.
Sunday Poem – Heidi Williamson
This is a photo of my triple gig bag, which is now 15 years old. I bought this bag in my first year at music college. Sometimes it did have three trumpets in, my Bb, my D/Eb trumpet and a…
Sunday Poem – Martin Reed
I am writing this post quite bleary-eyed again – not because it is particularly late – it’s only just gone 10pm but just because I’m exhausted. I’ve spent the day at the South Cumbria Music Festival today conducting three of my…
Sunday Poem – Mona Arshi
It feels strange to be back blogging again after my slightly unplanned month off. True to form, I have left it until the last minute, and I doubt very much whether this will be up before midnight, as it is…
Poetry makes nothing happen
It has been a whole month since the last time I wrote on here – this is the longest time I’ve gone without blogging since I started. I didn’t plan to take a break, although at first it seemed necessary.…
Sunday Poem – Fiona Sampson
This week has been taken over by finishing off my tax return. I finally got it done on Thursday night and it felt like a huge weight had lifted from me once I pressed submit, even though this meant I…
Sunday Poem – Tom Cleary
I’m writing this feeling very delicate as I went out last night to a friends 50th birthday party. Lady C, as she shall be called on this blog had no idea her husband had planned a surprise party and thought…
Sunday Poem – Rose Cook
I had every intention of starting my blog this morning but was foiled by my laptop and its strange insistence on updating itself without my permission. It updated itself for about 2 hours so I gave up in the end…
Sunday Poet – Pascale Petit
For the past couple of years, I’ve kept the mystery guest poets that come to read mid-week on the residential courses that I run a secret. The main reason for this has been that it is fun for me. Over…
Sunday Poem – Gerry Cambridge
There was a period last year, in the last couple of months when I started to feel a bit worn out and fed up of blogging every week. I was really busy in October/November and it was a struggle to…