Dove Cottage Young Poets are currently recruiting new members! We meet on Fridays from 3.30pm-5.30pm at Abbot Hall Gallery in Kendal to read, discuss and write poetry. This year there will also be an opportunity to work towards an Arts…
Sunday Poem – Holly Hopkins
Evening folks. On Friday afternoon I was running a poetry workshop for a group of young writers as usual in Kendal. Esther Rutter has been developing a private wordpress blog for the use of the young writers in the group…
Dear Mr Gove – Goodbye! Goodbye! Goodbye!
Dear Mr Gove dear mr gove today I taught the children not to sit like bags of small potatoes in their chairs I taught them how to breathe with their bellies like babies do when they are sleeping we…
Sunday Poem – James Caruth
Evening all. I’ve dragged myself away from editing my collection with great difficulty tonight to write this post – which is strange because I had to really force myself to start editing. I think I was worried because I knew…
Sunday Poem – Keith Hutson
Evening folks. I have exactly 32 minutes to get this blog finished and posted before it becomes officially not Sunday anymore. Today the husband and I got up at 4.30am and drove over to Yorkshire to watch the Tour De…
Sunday Poem – Rebecca Farmer
Evening folks. This week has been the first week in a long time which has felt like it’s settled down into normality after a really busy period. It has been a busy week at work – I’ve been doing extra…
Poetry in St Ives
Evening all! Today I suddenly remembered it is already June and I need to crack on with advertising the next Residential Poetry Course that I’m running with the wonderful Clare Shaw as co-tutor this October. I can’t believe how quickly…
Sunday Poem – Ben Wilkinson
Evening all! You will be relieved to know that I did indeed survive Total Warrior. It was really hot yesterday which was probably a good thing – I never felt too hot because we spent most of our 2 hour…
Updates before Total Warrior Race tomorrow in which I might be electrocuted/drowned/covered in mud and be unable to blog ever again
Evening folks! Just a fairly brief message to say hi and possibly bye! Tomorrow I’m part of ‘The Flying Poets’ team along with Clare Shaw, Lucy Burnett, Keith Sagar and last minute addition of the husband taking part in the…
Dear Mr Gove…Sunday Poem – Kim Moore
Evening all!I’m back! My residency at the Poetry School is about to finish – in fact I wrote my last article and sent it through to Will Barrett on Friday evening and I think it will probably go up some…