Another quick blog post with some updates about the Poetry Carousel residential course I’m running from the 7th-10th December 2018 with co-tutors Sean O’Brien, Andrew McMillan and Fiona Sampson. I’m very happy to announce that we have the fantastic…
Guest Poets for the 2017 Poetry Carousel
Another brief interruption of the ’16 Days of Action’ posts. With less than a week to go before the 2017 Poetry Carousel, I thought I’d reveal the mystery guest poets for this year’s course, and the dates and guest tutors…
Sunday/Monday poem – Paul Stephenson
I had a bit of a disaster with last night’s post. I got back from my reading at the South Yorkshire Poetry Festival and frantically began typing, having completely forgotten what day of the week it was (yes, who knew…
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 – Andrew McMillan
Afternoon folks. This is the first Sunday for a while that I’ve not been writing this at two minutes to midnight! Today we have gale force winds and awful rain in Barrow though, so I’ve not even bothered to get…