It feels like it is only mid-morning but it is actually 1.30pm at the time of writing – I had a lovely long lie in this morning after a slightly full weekend. I have lots of news this week –…
Sunday Poem – Pam Thompson
Evening folks. This is going to be a very short blog post because I am absolutely shattered! Last week I was running a residential poetry course with tutor Jennifer Copley at the Abbot Hall Hotel in Grange Over Sands. There…
Sunday Poem – Kathryn Simmonds
Morning everybody! I have had a few messages this week wondering where the Sunday Poem was last week – so my apologies first of all that it did not appear. I think only for maybe the second Sunday ever I…
Sunday Poem – Rhian Edwards
Evening folks – I’m going to try and make this post fairly short because I’m not feeling too well again – I haven’t been completely right since I had flu a couple of weeks ago – and over the weekend…
Sunday Poem – Carrie Etter
It has been so long since I have written this blog in the daylight – the last couple of weeks have been speed typing at half an hour before midnight. This week has been as busy as usual – on…
Sunday Poem – Nia Davies
This week I have been mainly recovering from my cold. A few incredibly exciting things have happened this week, which I can’t really tell you about, so maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned them. As well as being very exciting, I’ve…
Ranting is Never A Good Idea
So I have been in bed for the last two days with a flu/stomach bug type thing. More accurately I have been lying on the sofa along with the two dogs and the cat, the remote controls, copious amounts of…
Sunday Poem – David Constantine
Hello everybody. I’ve just got back from an amazing weekend at a residential course at Rydal Hall near Ambleside. This course was the culmination of the Writing School – an 18 month intensive course I’ve been taking part in, run…
Sunday Poem – Paul Stephenson
So this weekend I’ve been down in Leicester for my dad’s 60th birthday – his birthday is actually Thursday but we had a meal for him on Saturday – there were 16 of us altogether, mainly sisters, brother in laws,…
Sunday Poem – Moniza Alvi
Evening folks – I’m really excited about this week’s Sunday Poem because it is by one of my favourite poets, Moniza Alvi. I’ve been reading Moniza’s work since I first started writing poetry – so am very happy that she…