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Tag: Writing

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: Edge, by Sylvia Plath

But first came Plath. After Ursuala Le Guin, the only female author we studied (OK – Jane Austen). Her name … More

Edge, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Writing

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

Some new poems

I am delighted to announce the publication of some new poems, which you can find at the links below. Having … More

Being a Poet, New Poems, Poems, Poetry, Writing, Writing Poems

A list of found poems

Here is a list of various found poems that I have made over the years. Happy holiday reading and looking … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Found Poems, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poetry, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Writing prompts (blog post ending with a line by Shawna Lemay)

after Shawna Lemay Write a poem about the rain. Or the wind.Write about what you learned at university.Or did not … More

Asking, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Shawna Lemay, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process, Writing Prompts

Summer reading

To continue this season of not, where I have been reposting old blog posts and links to some others, I … More

Being a Poet, Cancer, Creativity, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Remission, Writing, Writing Poems

Head. Space.

As the book might say, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? As the book also might say, I have been … More

Aphex Twin, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Music, Natalie Jabbar, Shawna Lemay, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Process, Young Poets’ Stories

The blank space

Dear Friends Like the closed down (but still creative) shop window of Top Shop I saw on an early morning … More

Being a Blogger, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Blogging, Grief, Lifesaving Poems, Reading Poetry, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Process

The bombed cathedral

One of the touchstones that I would add to those I blogged about last week is a marvellous section from … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Charles Spurrier, Creativity, Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Practice, Writing Process

Leap before you look

The problem with having had the gleam is that for it to mean anything, work has to ensue. I hate … More

Anne Lamott, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Cliff Yates, DBC Pierre, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Process

The gleam

When someone asks me am I working on something, I never really know what to say. I want to answer … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Dani Shapiro, Joan Didion, Still Writing, Writing, Writing Poems

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