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Category: Being a Poet

On having allies

I once heard a senior British poet warming to a riff during a reading on the topic of the acknowledgements … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Blogging, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Writing, Writing Poems

Advent meditation 3

This time last year, I had begun a third period waiting for a response to a new manuscript of poems. … More

Advent, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Funboy Three, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, putting a collection together, Terry Hall, Waiting, Writing, Writing Poems

The Wind and the Rain – due in June 2023

I’m delighted to announce that The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, will be published with Blue … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Blue Diode Publishing, Climate Change Grief, Grief, Poems, Poetry, Poets, The Wind and the Rain, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems

A new review of Lifesaving Poems… from 2015

A huge shout out and massive thank you to Maria Taylor and her wonderful Commonplace blog, where yesterday I discovered … More

Being a Poet, Bloodaxe Books, Bloodaxe Lifesaving Poems, Lifesaving Poems, Maria Taylor, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry

Not exactly good riddance

Just a few hours left of 2021. Time to reflect on what this year has been. Until a week or … More

2021, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Simon Parke

Lifesaving Lines

Thank you to everyone who has commented to me either publicly or in private about my new series of blog … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Cancer, Dementia, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Shawna Lemay, Stationery, The Afterlife, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: Autumn, by Roo Borson

We have a lot of windows. I sit next to them at this time of the year thinking, Just five … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Grief, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Roo Borson

Lifsaving Lines: Alone, by Tomas Tranströmer

I have been thinking a lot this week about a line from Tomas Tranströmer’s masterpiece, ‘Alone’. (I have also blogged … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Tomas Transtromer, Tomas Transtromer Alone, William Blake, Wislawa Szymborska

Lifesaving Lines: The Day After, by Michael Laskey

The line that’s been buzzing round my head this week is the final phrase from Michael Laskey’s miracle poem of … More

Being a Poet, Laskey, Life Lessons, Poems, Poems about food, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Rose Cook, Smith Doorstop

Lifesaving Lines: Poem for Wednesday, by Naomi Jaffa

Recently, my relationship with Wednesdays has changed. It’s quite a long story, and one I don’t want to trouble you … More

Being a Poet, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Mental Health at Work, Naomi Jaffa, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry

Lifsaving Lines: For Sheridan, by Robert Lowell

The line that’s been buzzing round my head the last couple of weeks is from Robert Lowell’s heartbreaking poem ‘For … More

Being a Poet, Day by Day Robert Lowell, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney

Lifesaving Lines: Fosterage, by Seamus Heaney

I was very saddened to hear of the death of Brendan Kennelly this week. He had been a long-standing presence … More

Being a Poet, Brendan Kennelly, Exposure, Michael McLaverty, Reading Poetry, Seamus Heaney, Singing School, Social Media, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: The Gift, by Brendan Kennelly

I was at a thing. Very rarely for me, it was my own thing, only my second in front of … More

Being a Poet, Brendan Kennelly, Cancer, Life Lessons, Nils Frahm, Poems, Poetry, Poetry Readings, Poets, Reading Poetry, Remission and Cancer, Stationery, The Gift, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: Why We Must Write, by Mark Halliday

I thought of it before I knew I had remembered it. Just the word ‘then’. Rereading and searching at speed … More

Being a Poet, Jab, Lifesaving Lines, Lifesaving Poems, Mark Halliday, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry

A list of found poems

Here is a list of various found poems that I have made over the years. Happy holiday reading and looking … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Found Poems, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poetry, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Mind over natter

The YouTube clip below is a recording of a reading I made last week for the University of Exeter Guild … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, Mind Over Natter, Notebooks, Poetry, University of Exeter

Head. Space.

As the book might say, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? As the book also might say, I have been … More

Aphex Twin, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Music, Natalie Jabbar, Shawna Lemay, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Process, Young Poets’ Stories

Leap before you look

The problem with having had the gleam is that for it to mean anything, work has to ensue. I hate … More

Anne Lamott, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Cliff Yates, DBC Pierre, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Process

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