There are tributes all over the internet now for the poet Nigel Jenkins who died very recently. There is a tribute with details of his life here on the Literature Wales site which gives some idea of the type of…
Sunday Poem – Ben Parker
Another blog post which will (hopefully) creep in just under the wire, in the last few minutes of Sunday night! I will try not to go on about painting as some of my friends have suggested on Facebook that I…
Sunday Poem – Kim Lasky
I am aware that I am starting to write this blog at 11.19pm which is way too late. Most of you, in fact will probably read this in the morning – even my most loyal followers are probably tucked up…
Sunday Poem – David Clarke
I nearly forgot it was Sunday again today – I think the paint fumes may have got to my head. Yesterday I spent all day painting – well some of the time I was hoovering up dust and we have…
Sunday Poem – Jane McKie
Hello everybody. I have only just remembered (i.e 5 minutes ago) that I didn’t do a Sunday Poem yesterday, despite having the whole day at home not doing very much. My only excuse is I have been in a strange…
Highlights of 2013
Last year I did a round up of my highlights of the year, month by month which you can find here, if you’re interested http://kimmoorepoet.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/highlights-of-2012/ So I thought this is as good a tradition to start as any, and seeing…
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2013. If it were a…
Sunday Poem – Andrew Elliott
This week poet Andrew McMillan tweeted “If people couldn’t TELL other people they were a poet but could only sit and write poetry, would they still want to be a poet?” This first of all made me laugh, but I…
Sunday Poem – River Wolton
This week was the last week of term – and it’s been a bit strange. I can often be found counting down till the end of term – especially the Christmas term – I sometimes feel like I’m hanging on…
Sunday Poem – Katha Pollitt
In the precarious balance of music and poetry, music has won this week – every day apart from Thursday has been filled with playing carols in various places. On Monday I took some of the band to Asda to play…