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
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
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
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
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
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
With more than a nod to Max Ernst, and to James Midgley, a fellow poet writing about clouds in hangars, here’s day 16 of #NaPoWriMo2021
Day 12 of #NaPoWriMo21 and an experiment with over-writing and kind of image-word matching. Back at work now, too, so not quite as much time to work on these!
Day two of NaPoWriMo.
Every month (or nearly every month) I work in a generative space that asks us to make seven poems for seven days starting on the seventh of each month (it’s called ‘sevens’). For March, I experimented with erasure poetry. I really admire some of the… Read more