I have somehow, after getting a bit worn down with it, managed to find my way back to enjoying blogging every Sunday again. I found my way back to this place, as with most things, through poetry, through finding poems…
Sunday Poem – Chrissie Gittins
Going out for a run – procrastination. Playing on addictive computer game involving hatching dragons from eggs in a completely pointless exercise – procrastination. Ringing my mum for a chat – procrastination. Ringing my twin sister for a chat –…
December 2018 Poetry Carousel
Poetry Carousel 7th-10th December 2018 Tutors: Sean O’Brien, Fiona Sampson, Andrew McMillan and Kim Moore, Abbot Hall Hotel, Kents Bank, Grange-Over-Sands, Cumbria £390 to include breakfast, lunch and three-course evening meal. Please contact hotel to book 015395 32896 The Poetry…
Sunday Poem: Naomi Jaffa
Sunday Poem by Naomi Jaffa
January Poem 3 – Sue Vickerman
After trying to get myself to slow down a little with the Sunday Poems, and take the pressure off a bit, I find myself circling round to them again. The problem is I keep reading too many good poems.…
Garsdale Retreat – 5th-10th March 2018
The next residential I’m running is at the Garsdale Retreat, from the 5th-10th March 2018. The theme of the course is Encounters and Collisions and how to use these in our own writing. We’ll be looking at encounters with animals,…
January Poem 2 – Robert Wrigley
This has been a week full of terriers – literally. I’ve had my sister’s three terriers, Sox, Buffy and Eddie to stay. Added to my two Border Terriers Miles and Lola that makes five excitable dogs in the house. At…
PhD Musings and January Poem 1 – Christina Thatcher
First week of 2018 and I’ve been trying to get back into my routine which has been a bit doomed to failure because of visitors and a left over addiction to a computer game that I started playing over Christmas.…
Goodbye 2017 Hello 2018
I’m a little late for the 2017 roundup, but when have I ever let that stop me? This is what my 2017 looked like: The pink is poetry workshops and teaching – a mix of Dove Cottage Young Poets sessions,…
16 Days of Action #day16
There are only two poems in a ‘traditional’ form in my first collection, and both are in the sequence. The first is this one, a sestina. I read somewhere that for a sestina to truly work, it must be about…