Yes! It’s that time of year again – the Wantage Literary Festival is bringing you another glorious Sunday afternoon and evening of Poetry (with a capital P). Jenny Lewis, Fiona Sampson, Peter Wyton and Robin Gilbert will all be reading…
Yes! It’s that time of year again – the Wantage Literary Festival is bringing you another glorious Sunday afternoon and evening of Poetry (with a capital P). Jenny Lewis, Fiona Sampson, Peter Wyton and Robin Gilbert will all be reading…
ANYONE who can should come and see Don Paterson reading his poetry on May 22 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The indefatigable team at Woodstock Bookshop have just arranged for this leading contemporary poet to come to Woodstock and give a reading…
ONE of the reasons I haven’t been updating this blog very much is that I have been taking online poetry classes at the London Poetry School. In our hyperbolic age, I find it hard to characterise the course that I’m…
These are the links I’ve enjoyed this week. Thanks to Laura Dron, Amanda Jennings, everyone on facebook and Sarah Watkinson. Laura Dron’s pictures hilarious but very rude blog about cooking why you should support gay marriage – also not safe…
I can’t decide if online poetry courses are harder than real-life poetry courses. The one I’ve just finished was definitely illuminating and great fun. In real-life poetry courses you have to read in front of your classmates, usually, and that’s…
I am quite a cautious person. I like rules. I like to research the rules and then implement them. Teachers love me. But recently I’ve got bored with that and I’ve done a couple of things on instinct. I’ve enjoyed…