Sunday Poem by Naomi Jaffa
January Poem 3 – Sue Vickerman
After trying to get myself to slow down a little with the Sunday Poems, and take the pressure off a bit, I find myself circling round to them again. The problem is I keep reading too many good poems.…
Garsdale Retreat – 5th-10th March 2018
The next residential I’m running is at the Garsdale Retreat, from the 5th-10th March 2018. The theme of the course is Encounters and Collisions and how to use these in our own writing. We’ll be looking at encounters with animals,…
January Poem 2 – Robert Wrigley
This has been a week full of terriers – literally. I’ve had my sister’s three terriers, Sox, Buffy and Eddie to stay. Added to my two Border Terriers Miles and Lola that makes five excitable dogs in the house. At…
PhD Musings and January Poem 1 – Christina Thatcher
First week of 2018 and I’ve been trying to get back into my routine which has been a bit doomed to failure because of visitors and a left over addiction to a computer game that I started playing over Christmas.…
16 Days of Action #day16
There are only two poems in a ‘traditional’ form in my first collection, and both are in the sequence. The first is this one, a sestina. I read somewhere that for a sestina to truly work, it must be about…
16 Days of Action #day15
The cliché advice when we go for job interviews or doing a performance is to think of the audience or the interviewers with no clothes on, or think of them on the toilet. Someone once said to me that another…
16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence #day14
16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence #day14 Translated by violence – that witnessing violence, or carrying it out, or being the victim of it changes you in a fundamental way. It sounds obvious written out like that, but there…
16 Days of Action #day13 #16days
16 Days of Action – Day 13 This is the other poem in the sequence that I don’t usually read out loud. I wrote this at Treloyhan Manor Hotel, in St Ives. I was tutoring a residential there with the…
16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence #Day12 #16days
The Oxford Dictionary defines a “doppelganger” as ‘An apparition or double of a living person’. There’s an interesting article on the BBC here I also found this rather strange website where you can register your details and find your very own…