Hi all I used to write a blog called the Sunday Poem. Unsurprisingly, it appeared every Sunday. I would talk about my week and then post a poem that I’d read that I’d enjoyed. A long time ago, my old…
Poetry Readings and Book Launches
Join me for the book launch of All the Men I Never Married Hi all – I’m really looking forward to the book launch of All the Men I Never Married on Friday 15th October at 7.30pm. I’ll be reading…
When you expose a problem you pose a problem
The title of this blog comes from the book Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed. I made the mistake this week of posting in a public group about my disappointment that the local paper, the Evening Mail, failed in…
Sunday Poem – Tsead Bruinja
This week I’ve been living on my own as the husband has gone on a hiking holiday – he is walking through Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia and last night he texted from Kosovo. The novelty of being able to spread my…
Change to the Poetry Carousel
Due to ill-health, Saskia Stehouwer will not be able to take part in the Poetry Carousel this year. I hope she will be able to come and tutor on a future course, and wish her a full and speedy recovery. The gap…
Workshops at the Poetry Carousel
Tuesday 16th August 3pm – Friday 19th August at 12 midday Abbot Hall Hotel, Grange-Over-Sands, To book ring the hotel direct on 015395 32896 £330 This year’s Poetry Carousel will take place from the 16th August -19th August at Abbot Hall…
Clare Shaw at Kendal Poetry Festival — Kendal Poetry Festival
When we applied for Arts Council funding last year, our venue, the Abbot Hall Art Gallery had a small cafe on site. However, Kendal suffered terribly in the floods, and the cafe at Abbot Hall is now unusable. Pauline and…
Sunday Poem – Katrina Naomi
Today has consisted of an 11k run in the morning, and then stripping wallpaper from a ceiling in my living room. We started stripping the wallpaper off the actual walls in this room a while ago, which wasn’t too traumatizing,…
Information for Course Participants at St Ives
Evening all – I’ve just sent this email to Treloyhan Manor Hotel and asked them to forward it on to the participants on our course at St Ives next weekend but I thought for good measure I would put it…
Poetry in St Ives
Evening all! Today I suddenly remembered it is already June and I need to crack on with advertising the next Residential Poetry Course that I’m running with the wonderful Clare Shaw as co-tutor this October. I can’t believe how quickly…
