In our house we have a library, one room that is mainly devoted to books and reading and writing. We were very excited that we could do this – there are six floor to ceiling book shelves, a desk, filing cabinet and stationary cupboard with printers and scanners and shredders on top and finally the […]
My friend sent me a link to some Tamil love poetry
A large chunk of the poetry that I write is science or technology related, this started off as a personal interest thing but has been growing and I now have enough poems that I want to start putting them together into collections 🙂 I scour publications such as New Scientist and Astronomy Now and various […]
We all get rejections, it is however a harsh thing when you get your first, even worse when you do not hear anything and you are wondering how long you should be waiting, hoping, fearing… They say older poets and researchers tend to get more things published and more grants and funding but when you […]
I’ve never written a haiku but there was a competition to win a signed book by a man called Becket who I came across via Anne Rice. So I wrote the below poem, I didn’t win but everyone seemed to like the Haiku – it is not the traditional form but does count as a […]
Ok so normally for the poem a day challenges I post each and everyday during the month but actually I want to give myself a bit more space to edit and what not so I am no longer going to be doing that! Sorry guys but you do have the archive!
Something I forgot to mention in my previous post about the Art Exhibition was that people were surprised at how much of it was mine with comments such as, ‘I would never have thought those pieces were by the same artist’ and ‘wow that’s a lot of variation in style.’ People who actually know me […]
I follow Clive Baker’s page on Facebook and he/his admin posted a piece on concept art surrounding his novel Weaveworld which is my favourite of his books and one I found important in my development as a reader and writer. I read Weaveworld when I was thirteen/fourteen – it was a struggle and it was […]
I love writing poetry in note books rather than straight onto the computer – I do sometimes type them straight out but not normally as I write poetry when and were the idea strikes and this often means that I am out or in bed or some such. I always carry a note book with […]
So yesterday I did the village craft fayre all profits were for charity and yet it was the worst one I have ever done. It was slow – all of them are being slow at the moment but something else was going on, people were still buying the odd bit from the other stalls. Now […]