I don’t normally do more than one blog post a week on here but I felt that this was something that deserved the extra effort and push. Mab Jones who I first saw at the 2010 Wychwood Festival, is currently in Japan sharing welsh culture in the form of poetry. She is being funded for […]
A I’ve mentioned on here before the guy who really got me thinking about Visual Poetry and the cross over between art and poetry sadly died. It was tragic and upsetting and he was only just older than me 🙁 But his family and friends including those like me who only ever met him electronically […]
I entered the Oxford International Women’s Festival Poetry Competition – the theme was Women and Well-Being. After checking that it was allowed to enter stuff already live on the blog I entered three poems. I would have entered more and the best poem I had for the subject matter had to be pulled due to […]
I have achieved 100 posts – not all poems it is true but still I feel this is an occasion for celebration and I am offering one copy of my Monster Writing Poetry Game to the funniest limerick about writing. It has to be your own work and be allowed to be placed on this […]
I have decided that it is time to put together a poetry collection – it will contain 50 poems from this blog. It will be the first 50 minus the poems that I consider just for children so mainly the Little Books of Poetry. It will be avalable as an e-book, a printed leaflet and […]
Every year there is a Cheltenham Literature Festival and this year the poet A F Harold is planning to do some sort of poetry mash-up from suggestions and the like on twitter! This started on the 1st of September. I have already tweeted stuff like the title of poem I would like to read but […]
Chris, the brain behind Escape Into Life tragically died, a young man a little older than me. My reaction on hearing of his death was a mixed one but the thing that pained me most was the idea of all his work and endeavours dying with him. This fortunately has not happened in many ways. […]
There are several hashtags you can use on twitter to track down news on poetry and other poets 🙂 I thought I’d make a list: poetry poem vispo (visual poetry) poettues (this is an all day discussion on poetry) NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) WoPoWriMo (World Poetry Writing Month) AprPAD (April Poem a Day) PAD […]