A Black Day for Poetry It’s like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.” (Nigel Tufnel, from… Continue Reading A Black Day for Poetry
A Black Day for Poetry It’s like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.” (Nigel Tufnel, from… Continue Reading A Black Day for Poetry
Poems That Grow into Trees First of all, a happy New Year to everybody reading this post, especially if you’re reading it on 1 January… Continue Reading Poems that Grow into Trees
Poetry With Nowt Taken Out I’d like to start this week’s post with a little bit of poetry, brought to you courtesy of Allinson Flour… Continue Reading Poetry Wi’ Nowt Taken Out
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