Kendal Poetry Festival 23rd-26th June One of the reasons why this blog has been particularly quiet (ok, silent) since the New Year is that I am a co-director of Kendal Poetry Festival (along with Clare Shaw) and we found out…
Kendal Poetry Festival
If you’d like a poetry fix and are missing the Sunday Poem, you can head over to Kendal Poetry Festival and check out our ‘News’ tab. We’ve got three Five Minute Interviews up so far with poets that are appearing…
June News and a poem by Martin Kratz
I’m writing today’s blog post from my back garden in blazing sunshine. I keep thinking longingly of my hammock but I don’t think I’ll be getting it out of the shed. The problem with a hammock is that it’s impossible…
April/May news and the Occasional Poem
I can’t believe it’s been so many weeks since I last blogged! Arrgh…where does the time go etc etc? I’m currently sat on a train but unusually for me it is not the train from Barrow to Manchester across the…
Sunday Poem – Ina Anderson
It’s been three weeks since my last blog. I was under the delusion that it had only been two – time apparently flies when you’re not blogging. Since my last blog, I’ve done a lot of swimming, which started as…
Kendal Poetry Festival
I’ve been a bit quiet on here recently – but just wanted to draw your attention to one of the things I’ve been getting on with while I’ve been away. Last year, Pauline Yarwood and I decided to set up…
Sunday Poem – Catherine Ayres
A late-night instalment of the blog as I’ve spent the whole day walking round the Kentmere Horseshoe in the mist and rain with two friends and the husband. I decided last weekend, after an enjoyable hiking session up Seatallan with…
Sunday Poem – John Mills
Another week with no medical disaster, trauma or mishap so I think I am out of the woods. Before my operation, I would work until at least midnight, writing or catching up with admin. Since the hospital though, I’ve been going…
Sunday Poem – Jill Munro
The end of my second week of living alone and the strain is starting to show! How do people with children do this? It has been hard work keeping up with teaching, and my freelance writing work, and walking the…
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…
