Last night I drove over to Leeds to read at the Heart Cafe alongside Jim Caruth, Andrew Wilson Lambeth, Cora Greenhill, Mike Barlow and Jane Routh. This event was the last in the series for this year, the organisers are…
Sunday Poem – Maria Taylor
Today’s Sunday Poem is by Maria Taylor. Last weekend I went down to Leicester Shindig (see previous post!) and heard Maria read to launch her new collection, ‘Melanchrini’ published by Nine Arches Press (www.ninearchespress.com) I’m really enjoying ‘Melanchrini’ – my…
Leicester Shindig, Sales and Other Adventures
On Monday, I finished work in Ambleside at 3.00pm and jumped straight into the car to get to the Leicester Shindig poetry night in the evening, where I was a guest reader. I knew that logically, I should easily make…
Sunday Poem – C.J.Allen
Today’s Sunday Poem is by C.J. Allen – a poet who I’ve often noticed appearing on the list of winners and runners up of various poetry competitions. Clive is the reviews editor for Staple magazine – (www.staplemagazine.co.uk) which is where…
Ledbury Poetry Festival
Last weekend I was at Ledbury Poetry Festival as the Young Poet-in-Residence. I had an amazing time – I went to see loads of events – the highlights were probably Simon Armitage reading from his new prose account ‘Walking Home’…
Sunday Poem-Holly Hopkins
Here is your delayed Sunday poem fix folks. This week the poem is by Holly Hopkins, and it is one of my favourite poems of hers. I love the description of the ducks and the ‘What excellent thrift’ verse. And…
Poetry Parnassus Gushing
I am uncomfortably aware that I did not blog on Thursday as promised. Thursday last week now seems a million miles away – Thursday last week was before Poetry Parnassus, which was this weekend, and was one of the best…
Sunday Poem – slightly delayed – Ben Willems
You may (or may not) have noticed that no Sunday Poem appeared this week. I have a very good excuse in that I was swanning around London, reading at the ‘New Poet’s Festival’ organised by Roddy Lumsden and Emily Hasler. I…
Roy Marshall composes a Poem instead of a Review of ‘If We Could Speak Like Wolves’
Roy Marshall, who was one of the first ‘Sunday Poets’ I featured on this blog, sent me my first review of my pamphlet in the shape of a poem by email today, and kindly said I could put it on…
Sunday Poem 10 – Janet Rogerson
Today’s Sunday poem is by Janet Rogerson. Janet has just had her first pamphlet published by The Rialto (www. therialto.co.uk) and a thing of beuaty it is too. The Rialto not only produce the fantastic magazine of the same name, they…