I did a poem a day writing challenge in April – it was exhausting as I wrote and wrote and wrote and started to create concepts for visual poetry that I want to make. The amount of drawing that I now need to do to make these poems a proper reality is a little daunting […]
Another February gone and a note book full of poems it has wrought. I have a lot of editing a head of me as I always do after such writing challenges. I want to let the poems I’ve not popped on here (of which there are alot from various workshops and writing meet-ups I went […]
So I am taking along copies of The Little Book of Festive Poetry to the Cranham Craft Fayre tomorrow! I will sign them if asked and profit goes to buy the school new books for their library. Its on from 10 – 4 and I will also have copies of Running to Stand Still an […]
I have create an audio book / album of various festive stuff – so that is poems from The Little Book of Festive Poetry, a story about a little mouse called Percival’s Christmas Wish and a song, not to mention some actual sleigh bells! Sarah’s Christmas Collection by Sarah Snell-Pym Unfortunately Bandcamp have decided the […]
Well ok not quiet yet but with two weddings to attend and the presents only half knitted I need to think Christmassy. Also I wanted to try and get all the hard graft for The Little Book of Festive Poetry sorted. I was going to leave the audio version until next year but I’ve built […]
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 […]
So I am taking along copies of The Little Book of Festive Poetry to the Cranham Craft Fayre on Sunday the 25th Nov 2012! I will sign them if asked and profit goes to buy the school new books for their library. Its on from 10 – 4 and I will also have copies of […]
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 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 […]