Today I’ve been to Blackpool to run a 10k race, my first race since Coniston 14 in March when I picked up an IT band injury, and my first 10k since October 2016 when I ran the Lancaster 10k, got…
Sunday Poem – Claudine Toutongi
Sunday Poem today from the wonderful Claudine Toutoungi
PhD Musings
I’m currently reading gendering poetry by Vicki Bertram as part of my reading for my PhD. I’m absolutely loving this book – firstly because I can understand it – although it is academic, it’s very readable, and really interesting. The blurb…
Sunday Poem – Linda Klakken
My first Sunday Poem post in over a month and I’m already back into my bad habits – ie writing it just before midnight when I should really be asleep. This morning I went for a six mile run with…
Sunday Poem – Mike Farren
I’ve been on holiday for the last week in Benidorm with three friends that I run with. Our women’s running holiday is turning into an annual tradition. It feels slightly false to call it a running holiday as 90% of…
Sunday Poem – Mike Barlow
I’ve had another week at home, with no gallivanting around the place, which has been nice, but I’m starting to get slightly itchy feet now. I’m not very good at being in one place! I’ve spent most of the week…
Residential Poetry Course, St Ives
I’m really excited to announce that I’ll be running my annual Residential Poetry Course down in St Ives in 2018 with the fabulous Helen Mort as my co-tutor. The course will be running from 9th-14th April 2018, and I’ll be…
Sunday Poem – Kate Wakeling
I had beautiful clear-white pages in my diary this week. It has been the first week in ages I’ve not been gallivanting around the place. I spent a large portion of it doing my tax return, or more accurately, filling…
Tŷ Newydd and That Report
Last week, I saw via a post on Facebook that an Independent Review of Support for Publishing and Literature in Wales had been published. Within those pages the Tŷ Newydd Creative Writing Centre had received damaging criticism, which is so at…
Sunday Poem – Pauline Yarwood
This week I’ve spent a bit of time planning my summer holidays. In August, I’m off to Macedonia to read at the Struga Poetry Festival, as part of the Versopolis project. I’ll be at the festival for nearly a week,…