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Yesterday was one of the coldest days so far this winter, and I was off to London to the Poetry Society AGM and Trustee meeting. In my new comfortable boots and a warm coat, I had plenty of time to walk from Victoria station to the Poetry Society head office in Covent Garden. It was twilight, and even having to elbow my way through crowds of commuters and tourists didn’t spoi...
What a lovely event it was at The Brunswick in Hove on Sunday, at the awards event for the Brighton & Hove Arts Council Poetry Competition. Jeremy Page had kindly invited me to read alongside him (he was the adjudicator) and the audience was very receptive, especially given that they were no doubt there to hear the results of the comp! On...
My ickle pamph has almost sold out! Yep, only 3 copies of the 50 remain.
Which is great, of course, but – one of the reasons I made it was to sell it at readings, so now (after much deliberation) I’m going to make another 50, but i...
I too was very sorry to hear Brian Patten had died (I was reminded of this in reading Mat Riches blog post in which he talks about having sent Patten some poems as a youngster and got a kind letter in reply – how lovely! Imagine writing letters. ...
Just when I was starting to get back into writing poetry, the world of prose starts up again in my brain. First of all I was asked to review a new anthology of short stories by Sussex-based Chalk Circle Writers. Although my first reaction was ‘I don’t write short stories’, lo and behold, I was so taken with this collection and the idea of the short story form, I wonder if thi...
