This, I'm afraid, is utterly depressing and terrifying in equal measure.
I'm used, like any other birdwatcher, to reading about worrying declines in
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Mosaic Poetry Stanza Group Mosaic is a Stanza group based in Colchester, Essex. We meet monthly and the focus of the meeting alternates between a stimulus ...
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On Wednesday, 13th October, at 7.30pm British Summer Time, I’ll be one of the two guest readers (the other is Maggie Sawkins) at the launch of Greg Freeman...
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First, and obviously: given the amount of blood, sweat, tears and toil that you’ve invested in your work, let alone the time and money, it would be pervers...
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Upper left: *Basil Brown's (reconstructed) shepherd's hut at NT Sutton Hoo, Suffolk* Upper right: *drystone beehive cell (for a monk) in the grounds ...
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Sea Reconnection, featuring my poetry and the art of Miles Taverner and Darren Hewitt, is now drawing to a close and this is its final weekend. I wanted t...
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“…a powerful and riveting memoir. The Missing List is an important, essential text in the context of the #MeToo movement; it is also an essential text for ...
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I’m pleased to say that Richard Price’s poem ‘Personality Test (with worked examples)’ first published at And Other Poems has been commended in this year’s...
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Very excited to announce (ok, show off) that one of my poems called Dead Spit has been shortlisted down to 6 in Poem of the Month by Ink, Sweat & Tears ( t...
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A poetic exercise in positivity. Not *Waving* But Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: *I was *much further out than yo...
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On Tuesday this week (20th July, 2021) I was in Edinburgh to join a large gathering celebrating the 80th birthday of the Scottish writer John Herdman. It w...
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*Don Paterson: Writers and their Work* (Liverpool University Press, December 2021) Don Paterson is one of Britain’s leading contemporary poets. A ...
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The Rialto’s successful Editor Development Programme brought several new editors into the fold under the tutelage of long standing Editor Michael Mackmin, ...
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Aubade Without End Open a window; whistle in the key of birdsong. Stick your prayer flags in the tumble drier. Hear the kettle bubble with … Postcard...
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The Top Ten Books that have Inspired me (as a Reader and a Writer), Part 2 In my last post, part one of the books… Continue Reading The Top Ten Books that ...
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At primary school, confession, or, in Catholic parlance, the sacrament of reconciliation, was little more than our means to obtain … Continue reading →
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and life is so crazy, so various, so antithetical and terrifying, so confusing and so humorous (and hardly anyone ever seems to get the joke) so theoretic...
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To celebrate the publication of Mixed-Race Superman on 2 July by Melville House in the United States, this is an extract from the opening section of the es...
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I came and I went...So I am about to be walloped with some heavy duty marking tomorrow. A perfect opportunity then to pretend it's not happening and writ...
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In a recent article in Lighthouse Magazine Tim Love cited a quotation from 20th century American writer Don Marquis: ‘Writing a book of poetry is like drop...
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