I hope you haven’t missed me too much in this three week break (how did three weeks just fly by?). I’ve been hibernating from blogging, and getting through my last ‘busy period’. In the intervening three weeks, I’ve spent a…
Sunday Poem – Tom Cleary
I’m writing this feeling very delicate as I went out last night to a friends 50th birthday party. Lady C, as she shall be called on this blog had no idea her husband had planned a surprise party and thought…
Sunday Poem – Stephanie Green
Today it feels much longer than a week since I updated my blog – maybe because it has been a really exciting week. First of all I did my first public reading from my new collection. Although I did read…
Sunday Poem – Peter Jarvis
Evening all – if I have done this right, this will be published on Sunday at 5.30pm, while I am away in Crete. The wonders of technology. I’m actually writing this blog on Friday night just after midnight. I’ve been…
Sunday Poem – Graham Austin
I’ve just got back from a really enjoyable evening playing the trumpet at a fundraising concert at St Mary’s Church. It’s been about a year since I played any solo stuff on the trumpet but I really enjoyed it. The…
Sunday Poem – Graham Austin
Evening all – here I am, breaking all the rules of the blog and posting on a Monday – but I do have an excuse of a sort – I got back from Ilkley Literature Festival with half an hour…
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 – Chrissy Williams
Evening folks. I am so excited about my Sunday Poem this week that I can hardly bear to tell you any other news – then again, I haven’t got that much so that is ok! On Friday I read at…
Sunday Poem: Niall Campbell
Today’s Sunday Poem is by Niall Campbell. I met Niall in 2011 at the Eric Gregory Award Night when we all went to London to the Calvary and Guards Club to collect our cheques and swan about being posh. The winners of…
