You stick to the routines you have set up, notebook observations, voracious reading, sending the work out to mags, even … More
Tag: Writing Poetry
How to enter a poetry competition
You go a talk by a Leading Poet. No one you know is there, but still you sit at the … More
The stationery thing again
My blog post yesterday about the stationery thing provoked more responses than I ever imagined it would. Among the … More
One poet talking about another poet
Once upon a time I broke the rules and spoke with another poet (it doesn’t matter who) about a … More
On disappearing
I wrote recently about poets who disappear from view, specifically Susannah Amoore, from Faber’s Poetry Introduction 6. My point is far … More
Lifesaving Poems: Norman MacCaig’s ‘Aunt Julia’
Norman MacCaig’s ‘Aunt Julia’ was the first poem I remember reading which made me think ‘I need to do this’. … More
Poetry Exhaustion
If you write poetry (and I assume that if you do, you are also actively engaged in reading it), sooner … More
