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
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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
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
Collage: The Butterfly House
I bought a manual typewriter with my unexpected Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge windfall! This means I get to experiment with text cut-outs from my own poetry. I have a quick-fire response to the Visual Verse Challenge that’s just up on their website. As a springboard, I’ve… Read more
Poetry as a small ephemeral object
During January I’ve been experimenting with dioramas and playing with the idea of paper theatres, mixing and matching found text and characters, and wondering how I’d send these out to people – posted ephemera. Some of them are tri-folds, with tiny words on silk thread,… Read more
Ekphrastic Competition with Rare Swan Press
As a co-judge of an Ekphrastic competition (the image above as a starting point), what I wasn’t suspecting was the sheer quality of entries. And that’s not just the shortlisted entries. All the poetry I read that had been written in response to the image… Read more
Stories from the eyes of an owl
One of my favourite projects this year came late and was a crazy zine-like collaboration. Although chapbooks and poetry publications can be tricky for visual poets, it was a joy to work with Rare Swan Press on a hybrid project; the owl stories of the… Read more
Thrush Journal November 2021
And how happy I am to be in Thrush Journal this November. Alongside some amazing poetry from amazing poets. https://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/november-2021-sarah-jane-crowson.html That’s all the alt-constellations out, waltzing through the world. I wish them well.
On jointly winning the Black Bough micro poem Autumn/Halloween competition
I’ve never won a poetry competition before. I’ve been shortlisted quite a bit but never won anything. So it was amazing and lovely to win this competition, from Black Bough Press, who are one of the nicest small presses around and showcase work from new… Read more