On fairytales, fragments of ephemera and navigating in the dark
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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
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
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
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
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
Notes from Cloud-tasting in the Great Hall
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
Interlude: Fold
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!
The Constellation of Concerned Imposters
Day two of NaPoWriMo.