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Tag: Simon Parke

This was a good week

Third Sunday in Advent Today I pause from giving you updates from grief’s front line and take a leaf from … More

Advent, Anna Kamienska, Clive Wilmer, Gratitude, Grief, Harold Budd, John Freeman, Karen Walrond, mindfulness, Shawna Lemay, Simon Parke

Tired, but

I am tired. Though I write from a place of privilege and of safety, I am tired. Tired of feeling … More

Anne Lamott, Being Creative, Brain Pickings, Creativity, Edward Colston, James Baldwin, Josephine Corcoran, Karen Walrond, Life Lessons, Marie Howe, Marissa Davis, Max Richter, Mental Health, mindfulness, Presence, Rest, Shawna Lemay, Sigur Ros, Simon Parke

Places of hope

  Here are some places that I have been visiting recently and derived much comfort from. I hope you enjoy … More

Coronavirus, Covid-19, Creativity, Josephine Corcoran, Justin Wise, Lucille Clifton, Natalie Jabbar, Octavio Paz, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Samuel Barber, Shawna Lemay, Simon Parke, Yehuda Amichai

Poems from The Afterlife

After what feels like a very long wait since the publication of Riddance in 2012, I am delighted to be publishing … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Josephine Corcoran, Michael McKimm, Peter Carpenter, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Simon Parke, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Poems from The Afterlife

After what feels like a very long wait since the publication of Riddance in 2012, I am delighted to be publishing … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Josephine Corcoran, Michael McKimm, Peter Carpenter, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Simon Parke, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

UCU Strike Notebook

A passerby comes up to my group and hands us a brown paper bag. ‘It’s full of flat whites,’ she … More

Depression, Education, Higher Education, Jane Feaver, John Wedgwood Clarke, Keeping a notebook, mindfulness, Neoliberalism, Notebooks, Public Enemy, Simon Parke, Socrates, Stationery, UCU Strike, University of Exeter, USS Strike, USS Strikes

Late February notebook

Aesthetics of Creating Something This doesn’t just happen: It happens to you. Kenneth Koch, from One Train, p.64 ∞ ‘Even … More

Adam Haslett, Being a Writer, Higher Education, James Baldwin, Keeping a notebook, Kenneth Koch, mindfulness, Notebooks, Poetry, Poets, Robert Creeley, Scaachi Koul, Simon Parke, Tuition Fees, UCU Strike, USS Strike, Writing

End of January notebook

Blind panic when the anthology I am in arrives. The hunt, ever more despairing, for my poem, certain that they … More

Ali Smith, Andy Brown, Birdwatching, Chinese Poems, Connie Bensley, Cormac McCarthy, Education, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Burnside, Keeping a Journal, Keeping a notebook, Li Po, Notebooks, Sam Hammill, Simon Parke, Stationery, Sue Dymoke, Sven Birkerts, The Crossing

January notebook

Two successes I can claim as a parent: they both love music and football (even if one of them supports … More

Ali Smith, Annie Proulx, Cancer, Chelsea, Henri Nouwen, Jose Gonzalez, Keeping a notebook, New Year's Resolutions, Notebooks, Pauline Boty, Perfume Genius, Poets and notebooks, Poets' Notebooks, Simon Parke, Stationery, Thom Gunn

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