Guest blog post: Travelling without a visa, by Finuala Dowling

Travelling without a visa It seems to me that all writing comes from a place of resistance inside – … More

The Creativity Challenge

Below is the text of a PowerPoint presentation that I am giving today at the Directors of Studies Conference 2015, at Port … More

A friend recently asked me if I was writing. I replied, as I always do, saying that it was going … More

In the rift between what is going to happen and whatever we would wish to happen, poetry holds attention for … More

A few weeks ago I was writing in my own blog, the great fogginzo’s cobweb, about the way I … More

Day four of the Twitter-fast. By the time you read this, day seven. The first thing I notice is the … More

Writing my way through bereavement I don’t approve of death. I’m with Edna St Vincent Millay: I am not … More

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

As I did last year, I will be taking a break from uploading new posts to this blog over August. … More

How I put The Art of Falling together In May 2012 my first pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves … More

On Literary Envy “Comparison is the thief of joy” –Teddy Roosevelt You wake up one morning. You check in … More

This is the second in a series of Guest Blog Posts that I am hosting this year. More are … More

after and with apologies to Mark Halliday The missing blog post has gone AWOL. Never sure of its place in … More

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward … More

I have been moving. Not moving house, moving within it. Stuff has come with me, some of it has vanished … More

I Am Not I I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not … More

I have been wondering recently if the world of the poem (the one that is currently not-here, just out of … More

I have just come back from a thing. I am tired. A good afternoon of good conversation about large, important … More