I have previously blogged about how my book group makes the occasional foray into poetry alongside reading novels. This month we’ve been considering The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus. We began our discussions by looking at Dementia (p81) and noticing how different it was from the usual portrayals of the impact of dementia. In Antrobus’s work…
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A Poetry Book group
Just taking a little time away from finishing my MA in Writing Poetry to mention my local book group. Like many book groups we mostly read novels but since last October some of the group have joined me in reading a poetry book about every other month. I’m not sure why other book groups don’t…
Lodestone Poets 4
As mentioned in the previous blog post the fourth Lodestone poetry reading took place at the end of February. It proved to be a real treat of an evening. The Lodestone team, Sarala Estruch, Lesley Sharpe and Dave Wakely have the knack of putting together an interesting mix with never a dull moment. Last Wednesday…
Spring is coming
The days are definitely getting longer, more light earlier in the morning and coming out into light after Wednesday’s afternoon workshop with Katy Evans-Bush. I’m into the final nine months of the Writing Poetry MA and took time away from paid work earlier to work on the latest assignment. I have lots of readings to look…
A Summer of Poetry
I’ve been busy over the summer, reading, writing and studying poetry and haven’t had time to write blog posts which I suppose is how it should be. But with autumn arriving and a new term about to start I’m taking the chance to reflect on the last couple of months. The summer poetics kicked off…
Poetry Month – Sinéad Morrissey’s On Balance
For the second day on National Poetry month I’m reading and relishing Sinead Morrissey’s sixth collection. These are gorgeous and serious poems and you can hear her read them on the archive of the Newcastle Poetry festival from 2017. I’m finding these poems fresher and more vibrant than most of Walcott’s yesterday. Perhaps an unfair…
Poetry Month- Derek Walcott’s White Egrets
Up to now, I’ve only browsed Walcott’s poems, so for the start of National Poetry month I decided I should read one of this collections properly. I settled on White Egrets published in 2010. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1992 and taught one of my tutors on the Poetry School MA.…
Weekend Poetry Reading – Mary Jean Chan
Recently I had the great pleasure of being one of the poets reading for the launch for Lodestone Poets at Waterstones on Tottenham Court Road. It was a packed house as rightly so as the poets included Tamar Yoseloff, Steve Kendall, Mina Aiddo, Glyn Maxwell, Jacqueline Saphra and Mary Jean Chan. It was the day…
Poetry Reading to celebrate International Women’s Day – Sunday 25th March
I will be supporting the women’s refuges in Bedford by taking part in a poetry reading on Sunday 25th March 2 pm – 3.30pm THE PLACE THEATRE, BRADGATE ROAD, BEDFORD, MK40 3DE For more information and tickets click on www.theplacebedford.org.uk
Round up of recent and planned poetry happenings
One of the poems in Voices from Stone and Bronze inspired by the work of historian Peter Barton has been commended in the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Competition. Judge Roger Elkin comments “Peter Barton’s Lessons of History admirably celebrates the photographic and archaeological research into the mass graves of soldiers and tunnel excavations at the Somme by…