I didn’t quiet make it with the challenge of producing 30 visual poetry cards in April – I was just too busy! But I am not far off so am trying to finish them off this month 🙂 I have also finally unpacked my vispo journal which I want to work on once more. That […]
Last weekend was not only full of lots of lovely poetry events but I found out that I have won a bronze medal in the Gloucestershire Creative Olympics for my song Windy Gloucestershire 🙂 So I shall be going off to a lovely looking event at the end of April. Then on Sunday I managed […]
So tomorrow I am going to Oxford to read at The Not The Oxford Literary Festival, here is the Facebook events page. I have been working on a collection called Political Converse and the theme for the reading is Socio-Politics-Protest in literature so I will be reading poems from that such as Recipe For Riot […]
I have about 40 poems based on science subjects and images plus a few political ones to throw into the mix. So that is more editing but I found that just out of poems that are already in existence I have enough to release a booklet of 10 Space specific poems and once this lot […]
I actually have no idea if anyone else is doing this poetry challenge this year – but I did it last year and it helped me get a good poetic start to the year and to be honest I need to keep going with the poetry. I have lots of kids poetry I want to […]
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 […]
Childrens’ songs: Splish Splosh Splat (Children’s) My Lovely Babies (Children’s) Lullabye (Childrens and in my Little Book of New Baby Poetry) Icky Sticky Mud (Childrens) Row Your Boat (What Do You See on the Stream) – Childrens Mummy I’ve Got a Grumpy Face (Children’s) Sun is Shining (Children’s – longer version of this) Driving Along […]
I know I’m a week early but I have actually finished the music challenge I set myself – I now have 30 songs (or at least lyrics and tunes!). The tunes are still in my head as I don’t actually know how to read or write music but I am recording me singing some of […]