Performance Poetry
I was unexpectedly impressed at a recent poetry reading. No, really, and I’m going to tell you all about it. Earlier this month, manager James at Whitley Bay’s indie bookshop…
I was unexpectedly impressed at a recent poetry reading. No, really, and I’m going to tell you all about it. Earlier this month, manager James at Whitley Bay’s indie bookshop…
Yesterday marked a whopping 38 years since I wrote my first “proper” poem. You might think “why and how does she remember?” Thing is, I’m great at remembering birthday and…
Way back in 2007 I contacted Dr Sally Cline at Anglia Ruskin University to ask advice about writing a rock music biography. I was living in Cambridge at the time…
So I got to meet and then see and hear Cycle Poet Caroline Burrows on Thursday evening. I hadn’t heard about her or her work until an ol’ school pal…
I’m reading The Wind in my Wheels by Josie Dew at the moment. It was recommended to me by someone who has cycled all over the place. I’d say the…
I’m pleased to write that The Poem with No Name from my pamphlet Loose Threads and Sacred Spaces is August’s Diamond Twig Poem of the Month. Poet and novelist Ellen…
Today, Thursday 4th August 2022, is publication day for Julie Walker. Hodder and Stoughton are publishing her debut novel, Bonny & Read. I type with a grin on my face…
In my last blog, Alcoholiday, I wrote about recalibrating my 40 year relationship with booze. I was helped by following Annie Grace’s challenge in The Alcohol Experiment: 30 Days to…
How healthy is your relationship with booze? For many of us, this is a difficult question to answer truthfully. We lie to ourselves and others. I decided to recalibrate my…
Is it possible and/or appropriate to wish “Happy Birthday” to an album? If so then this blog is my attempt to mark 25 years this weekend of OK Computer, Radiohead’s…