I’m back to my old habits of late-night blogging today and I suspect most of you will be reading this on Monday morning. I’ve had a better week than last week health-wise, although I didn’t really start eating properly again…
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…
Sunday Poem – Steve Ely
I’ve discovered this week that I’m not very good at being ill. I have quite a few friends who live with chronic pain or illness and they always seem to be cheerful and full of good humour, and to just…
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…
Sunday Poem – Ilse Pedler
I’ve just got back from a run with the dogs. I decided to run through the dunes and then back along the beach. It has been a beautiful day here in Barrow – very hot and sunny. I was running as…
Sunday Poem – Carole Coates
The Sunday Poem this week is by the fabulous Carole Coates, published by Shoestring Press
A Review of the 2015 Poetry Carousel
The poet Elisabeth Sennit Clough was one of the 32 participants on last year’s sold out Poetry Carousel. I asked Elisabeth to write an account of what the experience was like. If you’ve been debating about whether to come,…
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 – Anna Lewis
I’m writing this very late at night, because instead of getting on with my blog post, I distracted myself with watching the highlights of the London marathon. This is the first year I’ve not watched it on the television. I’ve…
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,…