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,…
Sunday Poem – Katie Hale
This morning, my lovely husband said ‘Let’s have an easy Sunday today and not go for a long walk’ (which was what we’d planned). Ok, I said, thinking longingly of the multiple episodes of Love Island I have to catch…
Sunday Poem – Emily Blewitt
It’s been a pretty full-on week this week! Yesterday I had a lovely poetry marathon, like I used to in the Olden Days. I started off doing 5k at park run – I thought I would have a good go…
Sunday Poem – Ayelet Mckenzie
I’m writing this in the back garden today – it’s vaguely sunny here in Barrow, and now I’m running again, I like being outdoors most of the time. I’m not sure if it’s to do with circulation or what, but…
Sunday Poem – Arthur Broomfield
I’m writing today after last night’s terrible events in London. It feels like there isn’t anything I can say that would mean anything. The 24 hour news cycle, the constant speculation, the grilling of obviously traumatised eye witnesses by news…
Sunday Poem – Polly Atkin
I’m writing my blog in the garden today. Our ‘half a hawthorn’ tree (the neighbour chops it in half because it hangs over our fence) is valiantly putting out blossom on our side of the garden, just in the lower…
Sunday Poem – Ina Anderson
It’s been three weeks since my last blog. I was under the delusion that it had only been two – time apparently flies when you’re not blogging. Since my last blog, I’ve done a lot of swimming, which started as…
Sunday Poem – Jennifer Copley
I hope you haven’t missed me too much in this three week break (how did three weeks just fly by?). I’ve been hibernating from blogging, and getting through my last ‘busy period’. In the intervening three weeks, I’ve spent a…
Sunday Poem – Geraldine Clarkson
Maybe you haven’t noticed, or maybe you have, that there has been a two week break in the blog posts again. I always feel guilty when I don’t blog, and I get a lot of lovely comments and feedback from…
Sunday Poem – David Wilson
I have been in hibernation mode this week. After my marathon day of outdoor activity last week, I started to feel a little bit unwell on Sunday night. I put it down to too much activity, but by Monday I…