Here’s wishing everyone a Happy World Poetry Day for 2021. Here’s some background information from UNESCO as to why World Poetry Day is more important than it might appear: Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms… Read more
I’m hugely pleased to have poetry published in Feral: a journal of poetry and art, this month. It’s a great journal, featuring work from a really diverse mixture of creative voices, each presenting different perspectives and windows into individual worlds. But there are intersections; a… Read more
I’m excited to be volunteering for Creativity Works this week as part of their summer of creative wellbeing. There’s been some intriguing work posted (some of them with stunning visuals, too). Take part by watching the video and posting your text on twitter using the… Read more
Titles are tough. At their best they can clue a reader in to otherwise ambiguous meanings, or subtly shift a reading. At their worst, they can be off putting, overly prosaic, pretentious or so weird they don’t work with the poem. And with visual poems… Read more