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Tag: Being a Writer

James Schuyler: Centenary year celebrations

Open call for guest blog posts celebrating the life and work of James Schuyler This November, we celebrate the centenary … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, James Schuyler, Life Lessons, New York Poets, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Writing, Writing Poems

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

What you read in 2022

Here are the blog posts from 2022 that you read most often Lifesaving Lines: The Death of Fred Clifton, by … More

Being a Writer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ian McMillan, James Schuyler, Lucille Clifton, philip larkin, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Roger Robinson, Simon Armitage, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Writing

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

The Kevin Jackson Award

I was privileged to meet and work with the late writer and critic Kevin Jackson in 2011. We tutored a … More

Arvon, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Kevin Jackson, Peter Carpenter, Teaching Creative Writing, Teaching Writing, Writing, Writing Poems

Not much

What’s been happening? Well, not much. Which is another, deflecting, way of saying quite a lot, actually. So much that … More

Adam Zagajewski, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Coral Bracho, Ellen Bass, Life Lessons, Max Richter, Paul Hlava Ceballos, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Sarah Maguire, Shawna Lemay, Writing, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: The Job of Paradise, by Roger Robinson

My personal poetry highlight of the summer was listening to Roger Robinson read and be in conversation with Pádraig Ó … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Benjamin Zander, Bernadine Evaristo, Greenbelt, Kwame Dawes, Lifesaving Lines, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Roger Robinson

Lifesaving Lines: History, by Tomaž Šalamun

The other day I bumped into Tomaž Šalamun. I was enjoying the last few hours of walking around Ljubljana, took … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, History, Lifesaving Lines, Ljubljana, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Tomaž Šalamun

Book news for 2023

I am delighted to announce that Blue Diode have accepted my new poetry manuscript and will publish my sixth collection, … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Blue Diode Press, Poems, Poetry, Poets, The Wind and the Rain, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Lifesaving Lines: The Death of Fred Clifton, by Lucille Clifton

So this is a bit spooky. All week I had in mind these marvellous final words from Lucille Clifton’s poem … More

Adam Zagajewski, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Frank O'Hara, French stationery, Josephine Corcoran, Life Lessons, Lucille Clifton, McFadden & Whitehead, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Queer Eye, Reading Poetry, Shawna Lemay, Stationery, Stina Nordenstam, Writing

Lifesaving Lines: Stone, I Presume, by Ian Mcmillan

For several weeks before Christmas I had these words from Ian McMillan’s peerless ‘Stone, I Presume’ rattling around my head. … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Frank O'Hara, Ian McMillan, Lifesaving Poems, Martin Stannard, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Writing Poems

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

New crushes

As I try to hold on to beginner’s mind, I recall the practice of falling in love at a moment’s … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Han VanderHart, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Scott Weaver

Who are we serving?

One of the great joys for me this summer was being able to get back to Greenbelt, a festival of … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Greenbelt, Natalie Goldberg, Poems, Poetry, Roger Robinson, Writing Poems

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