End of Year Competition Round-up Let’s round the year off with a bit of competition news. Overall 69 submissions resulting in 6 acceptances, 0 longlist… Continue Reading End of Year Competition Round-up
End of Year Competition Round-up Let’s round the year off with a bit of competition news. Overall 69 submissions resulting in 6 acceptances, 0 longlist… Continue Reading End of Year Competition Round-up
Counting Poetry Beans I received a lovely, exciting, email from Jan Fortune, editor of Cinnamon Press trying to suss out, through one simple question, how… Continue Reading Counting Poetry Beans
Return of the Poetry Wanderer I’ve been oop t’ the ‘ills and far away … a residential poetry course at Arvon’s Lumb Bank centre, which… Continue Reading Return of the Poetry Wanderer
A Thorny Question: Do Men or Women Make Better Poetry Readers? To round of my series introducing you to my new glasses that are able… Continue Reading A Thorny Question: Do Men or Women Make Better Poetry Readers?
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Listen to the Glasses I’ve been wittering away about these all-singing-all-dancing-all-talking OrCam glasses for two weeks now, and I know what you’re really curious about… Continue Reading Listen to the Glasses
Looking at Poetry for Children To continue where I left off last week, having taken my talking glasses to creative writing group where I had… Continue Reading Looking at Poetry for Children
Re-learning How to Read I wonder if you saw the title of this post and stopped by, expecting me to reveal hints and clever tips… Continue Reading Re-learning How to Read
Keep Taking the Poetry Tablets First things first, wasn’t Kate Tempest fantastic on BBC2 last night with her new work Let Them Eat Chaos? I… Continue Reading Keep Taking the Poetry Tablets
Political Poetry for the Young How political is poetry? Can even the simplest poems prove political at some subconscious level? What age is best for… Continue Reading Political Poetry for the Young
The Poetry-Music Connection Poetry and music can have a strong musical connection. I alluded to this in last week’s post about ligatures, where a slur… Continue Reading The Poetry-Music Connection