Well it has been a busy summer already and we are only about half way through! I’ve just finished my main festival rounds but still have a couple to go! Events: 16-17 July – Horoscope Life and Ecstasy – performance 19th-21st Aug Maze Festival – performance 27-28 August – The Grand Mock-Tales and Creativity Tea […]
People have been asking about the comb bound booklets and zines – I am very lucky in that I have been given an old laser printer so I’ve scanned the pictures I drew and inked and cleaned them up digitally and printed them. I’ve also been given a comb binder so I went out and […]
Last night I went to Buzz Words – a local poetry night including guest poet, workshop and open mic readings. I realised that I had not been for a long time 🙁 Due to college and health and busy-ness but Bobby Parker was reading and I really like his stuff which I think I initially […]
Back in the autumn…. Via Centre Arts I met a lovely lady called Jenna Monroe who is a fantastic singer. I had wanted to do a workshop she was running but it was canceled so I have been on the look out for anything else she does. I can’t afford singing lessons at the moment […]
As part of a New Years creative challenge I said I would send something I had created to the first 5 people who commented with the idea that they would do the same 🙂 The first piece I have handed over is a Inspira Jar – a concept I sort of dreamed up whilst working […]
Last night I finally managed to make it along to a Cheltenham Poetry Society meeting, having gotten lost on a previous attempt! The group was small but full of poetic-ness. The night opened with a writing exercise which covered Chinese style poetry and four part poems plus a bit about language. I wrote about 8 […]
Last week saw the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. I started off by going to see Domestic Cherry – so funny. It was Michael Scott and Hilda Sheechan in the personas of a Swidon Chav and a hyper kitch Housewife. The I headed out to dinner with one of the stewards and then onto Slak Bar to […]
It is now the Cheltenham Poetry Festival and I am running children’s workshops. This all started with poetry dragons and has grown 🙂 So now I have a giant version of part of my Monster Writing game complete with bag to keep it in! And we have the Poetry Bees who live in the Story […]
In February I ran a couple of workshops at Rowan Field Junior school – I had stuff for them to write poems for the dragons body, a poem about writing the poems for the dragons body, the Muse Monsters telling them things they should think about when writing poetry and stuff to make little dragons […]
Things I want to achieve this year: 1) Get The Little Book of Festive Poetry released in print, audio and e-book 2) Do the same for The Little Book of Olympic Poetry but before the Olympics actually start 3) Do poetry challenges: – Month of Poetry (Jan) MoP – World Poetry Writing Month (Feb) WoPo […]