This year has not been what I thought it would be – that is often the case but this year more so than normal and this time not just for me. Global events have shaken all our lives to a greater or lesser extent. This upheaval has cost many their lives and upended others, I […]
National Poetry Day is a day of celebrating and taking part in all things poetry, this year it is on the 1st of October 2020 and there are lots and lots of virtual events taking place, readings, write-ins and so on. This years National Poetry Day is a little different to previous years where I’ve […]
Today is National Poetry Day here in the UK so I shall be spending it celebrating poetry on my various blogs and sharing the archives and new fresh stuff on twitter and facebook etc… not to mention posting up more writing exercises on the WoPoWriMo site for anyone who wants to get on and write […]
Today is World Poetry Day – poetry is something that crops up in all cultures and spans the depths of time. Here is what the United Nations have to say about it – this date was designated World Poetry Day in 1999 sadly I think I only really found out about it a few years […]
For International Women’s Day the Gloucester Poetry Society are putting on Raised Voices – with headline poets Tanya Feasey and Chloe Jacquet. Two very different but powerful poets ranging from humour to the deeply profound and sometimes both mixed together! I will be hosting and Ada Lovelace The Puppet will also be there along with […]
The last Saturday of Jan I will be at Overtown Farm in their lovely barn with all the poetry zines, visual poetry colouring books and the Gloucester Poetry Society’s first anthology Poetry Without Pretension. Sat 3rd Feb I will be at the True Believers Comic Book Festival with all the books and zines. Mon 5th […]
Merry Christmas, Yule, Midwinter etc…. I like to snug down and write in the winter and we’ve also created an indoor fire/story telling circle using LED lights and empty loo roll tubes – I hope you are all having an equally cosy time if you live in colder climes and a cool festive times if […]
October has been crazy busy not least with the first ever Gloucester Poetry Festival run by the Gloucester Poetry Society. I performed, compared, made surprise pouches, gave out badges and run workshops. There are a lot of photos which I hope to get processed and out soonly but first I think I need a bit […]
The first ever Gloucester Poetry Festival is almost upon us – Saturday (21st Oct 2017) sees events starting off with an extra special Food for Thoughts at the Cafe Rene 2-5 pm. This is followed by the Gloucester Waterstones Villanelles on Sunday 2-4 pm complete with Poetry Roulette and me co-hosting! Then on Thursday the […]
Monday night I inflicted my childrens poetry on an audience in the Waterstones Cheltenham as part of the Villanelles series run by The Gloucester Poetry Society. This beautiful photo of the reading was taken by Kurt Schroeder Photography which is a challenge as I can’t really do flash photography and the light levels were poor! […]