Below are details of three launches for The Art of Falling. It would be great to see you at one, two or even all three if you are feeling particularly keen! The first official reading from The Art of Falling…
Sunday Poet – Gill Nicholson
With the thought of some of my readers who assure me they look forward to the Sunday Poem and often sit up waiting for it with matchsticks in their eyes to keep them awake, I am determined that this post…
Sunday Poem – Andrew Forster
This is the first blog post I am writing from my lovely new/old desk which I bought in a charity shop last week for £60. It apparently came from a school. I quite liked it when I bought it but…
Sunday Poem – Rhian Edwards
Evening all! First of all, I apologise for the silence over the last two weeks – last Monday I moved house finally – we had our offer accepted on a house, and accepted an offer on our house in April…
Sunday Poem – David Tait
Evening all – first of all my apologies for the missing Sunday Poem last Sunday. Since last Saturday I have been in Inchnadamph, which is in north-west Scotland, in a small two-bedroomed cottage which we renamed ‘Midge Mansion’. It’s real…
Updates before Total Warrior Race tomorrow in which I might be electrocuted/drowned/covered in mud and be unable to blog ever again
Evening folks! Just a fairly brief message to say hi and possibly bye! Tomorrow I’m part of ‘The Flying Poets’ team along with Clare Shaw, Lucy Burnett, Keith Sagar and last minute addition of the husband taking part in the…
Sunday Poem – Emily Blewitt
Evening folks. The Sunday posts are going to be a bit shorter on here for the next month because as part of my role as Digital Poet in Residence I will be posting extracts from my logbook – which will…
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 – Jane Houston
Evening folks! I have had a BRILLIANT weekend – my much-talked about (by me) Poetry Marathon occurred yesterday. On Saturday morning I got the 6.15am train to the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. I have been working on a project where…
Sunday Poem – Katha Pollitt
In the precarious balance of music and poetry, music has won this week – every day apart from Thursday has been filled with playing carols in various places. On Monday I took some of the band to Asda to play…