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Image of a paper theatre card pop-out with background of mountains and sea/sky combined, middle layer of a classical scene with temple and trees, and curtains. Two victorian women, one with curled goats horns, clasp hands on layer 2. A woman with a bird head can be seen in the distance. Text can just be glimpsed 'the key'

Pop up & pop out visual poetry book experiments

During June I’ve been experimenting with pop-up and pop out ideas. I want to be ready to work with The Ethelzine next year on a visual poetry book. It’s also great timing because the staff showcase is coming up at my workplace, Hereford College of… Read more

What a wonderful whorl! (by Ralph La Rosa)

I’m really proud to be able to showcase a response by Ralph La Rosa to the Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, won by Mary Meriam. The poem is below, and huge thanks to Ralph for both sharing the poem with me and being happy for me to… Read more

Line drawn image of a palm, with a bird-headed figure and flowers - text reads art and bone the palmist must shape the fingers'

National Poetry Writing Month

It’s April, which means National Poetry Writing Month, or NaPoWriMo for short. What is National Poetry Writing Month? The challenge of NaPoWriMo is to write a poem a day for 30 days, and there are various lovely prompts and communities of writers working across the… Read more

Rattle Ekphrastic Results

The Rattle Ekphrastic Results are out! Thank you so much, Rattle, for choosing my work your Ekphrastic Challenge this February. If you have a minute at all, do go and look at Mary Meriam’s beautiful ghazal, ‘Homemaker’., which was my favourite for the Ekphrastic challenge… Read more

collage of deer-headed woman in dark theatre with flying fish

What is Visual Poetry?

I’m frequently asked to describe what I think of as visual poetry (or Vispo) so I thought I’d write a blog post about it. For me, visual poetry works in an intersection between the visual arts and poetic texts. I once heard ‘poetry’ described as… Read more

Erasure poem and Collage - Image of a seated woman with three colourful birds and Erasured text reads imprudent, desireable, extravagant, elaborate Librarian

Erasure Poems

I’ve just spent a week making erasure poems, and started to think about what these are to me and what the form might mean. What are Erasure Poems? For those who are new to erasure poems there’s a great article here from Erin Dorney (on… Read more