I had a great meeting with my co-tutor Jennifer Copley today. We spent the afternoon planning the timetable and workshops that we’ll be running at our upcoming Poetry Residential at Abbot Hall Hotel in Grange-Over-Sands. The residential is running from Monday 24th…
Sunday Poem – Jennifer Copley
I can’t remember if I told you all about this last week, but while I was away in Malaga my husband built wall-to-ceiling shelves in our box room, which is now going to be my writing room. Although I’ve had…
Sunday Poem – Flora De Falbe
Another two week gap since my last blog post has opened up! Since I last wrote, all of this has happened – My last day at work as a peripatetic brass teacher for Cumbria Music Service was on Wednesday. As…
Sunday Poem by Rowland Crowland
I think I’ve been blogging for around three years and I’m pretty sure a huge part of that time has been spent painting various rooms in various houses. I just had a wave of deja vu hit me as I…
Sunday Poem -Billy Letford
Back on track with the Sunday Poems now after a two week hiatus. My life is still slightly chaotic, as the end-of-term approaches. The end-of-term and end-of-school-year is always crazy, but this time it has been compounded by the…
Sunday Poem – Jill Munro
The end of my second week of living alone and the strain is starting to show! How do people with children do this? It has been hard work keeping up with teaching, and my freelance writing work, and walking the…
Sunday Poem – Penny Sharman
I’ve had one of the best half terms ever -the weather has been great all week, and although I had a couple of things on during the week, I wasn’t rushing around at my usual frantic pace. My Poetry School…
Sunday Poem – John McCullough
I’m writing this in the garden this week, in dazzling sunshine, so if there are more spelling mistakes than usual, you will have to excuse them – I am slightly blinded by the light. I’ve also had some visitors this…
Sunday Poem – Jonathan Humble
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…
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…





