Evening everybody! This week has mainly been about recovering from last Sunday – the all day workshop left me completely knackered – most of Monday I spent on the sofa watching rubbish TV which was about all my brain could…
Sunday Poem – Claire Dyer
Evening folks. This is pretty late today – I’ve been at an all day brass workshop with about 70 children today. This came about because of this blog – I’d written about how sad it is to see adult brass…
Poem for Emily Davison
Here is a poem that was first published in Poetry London in Issue 71, Spring 2012. It’s a fab magazine – so if you are looking for one to subscribe to, you can’t go wrong with this one! You can…
Sunday Poem – Joshua Weiner
Evening folks! It’s almost the end of the half term week – it’s my day off tomorrow so I’m not back at work quite yet. I’ve had quite a lazy week off – I’ve been doing lots of reading. I’ve…
The nice things people say
Afternoon everybody. Today I got an email to say I hadn’t won a Northern Writers Award – which is a bit of a bummer. However two lovely things have been written about me this week online – the first is…
Poetry and a paypal party
It is eleven a.m now so I’m not going to say good morning in case it’s not morning by the time I finish. I’m currently on half term which equals sitting in my onesie for most of the day reading…
Sunday Poem – Kathryn Maris
I have a feeling that this may be a bit of a long blog post – this week has been full of lovely happenings. On Monday I got the train to London and read at the Troubadour. If I lived…
The Path to a First Collection – Hilda Sheehan on her way to Cultured Llama Press
Evening folks. Here is another take on the path to a first collection – this time by Hilda Sheehan whose first collection was published a couple of months ago by Cultured Llama Press. It’s a very different take on it…
Sunday Poem – Michael Crowley
Afternoon everybody! This week I’ve been to Grasmere three times – once to talk about a new project which I’ll be working on which sounds really exciting – I’m going to be running some poetry workshops with 16-19 year olds…
Sunday Poem – Mimi Khalvati
Afternoon everyone. The Sunday Poem is going up a little earlier than usual today for a number of reasons. The hubby and I already walked the dogs this morning through some fields near Dalton before the rain really started –…