‘I’ve been at the field.’ This, spoken by one of the teachers on last week’s writing residential at Totleigh … More
Category: Creative Writing
When I read poetry -by Mark Strand
When I read poetry I want … More
The Invisible College
I have just come back from a thing. I am tired. A good afternoon of good conversation about large, important … More
Why do it?
because of the words and because of the books because of the woman in the anorak at the swimming baths … More
Going for coffee
The book and I are passing each other messages through a third party. Neither of us bothers with the niceties … More
Pursued by the poem
I am being pursued by the poem. It has been there for several years now, asking to be written. I … More
Paying attention
Readers of this blog will know I have been thinking a lot about stationery recently. (Actually, that is something of … More
Scribbling With Delight
When I speak to trainee primary school teachers about their views of poetry I am often struck by their divergent … More
Lifesaving Poems: Thomas Lux’s ‘An Horatian Notion’
Photo Credit: Tatiana Wilson You make the thing because you love the thing and you love the thing because someone … More
The Write Team: Creativity, Confidence and Challenge
Yesterday I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the University of Exeter’s CREATEseminar with Emma Metcalfe of Bath … More
Creativity, Confidence and Challenge: The Write Team Research Report
‘I’ve learnt to be more confident with my ideas, because sometimes you have an idea that you just sort of … More
The Write Team: Creative Writers in School -from Bath Festivals
via youtube.com I used to be the one sitting quiet in the corner and now I am not afraid to … More
The Write Team Conference: Creativity, Confidence and Challenge
Creativity and Writing Explored.ppt Download this file > Keynote Address to Conference AW June 2011.ppt Download this file >
Finding time -by Anne Lamott from Sunset.com
Lamott’s books include Operating Instructions and Traveling Mercies. Her new novel, Imperfect Birds (Riverhead Books; $26), will be published this … More
Can Poets Teach?: On Writers Teaching Writing -by Joan Houlihan at Poets.org
Like a Jules Verne novel, Dana Gioia’s famous essay “Can Poetry Matter” got the future’s big picture right, but the … More
Lifesaving Poems 