I always make time for poetry on Fridays, preferably with a mug of tea. This week’s reading material is Jane McLauglin’s prize winning first collection, Lockdown, which is being published by Cinnamon Press this weekend. I am really enjoying Jane’s use of imagery and the way her poems capture moments like snapshots. As I’m not…
Category: Cinnamon Press
The Year of the Pamphlet – Cherriman, Hershman and Josephy
Either by chance or by choice poetry pamphlets are becoming my favourite things to read this year. I’ve already mentioned Becky Cherriman’s Echolocation which was published earlier this month from Mother’s Milk Books and her poems which have such grit in them. Then in the same week Tania Hershman’s Nothing Here is Wild, Everything is…
Becky Cherriman and Echolocation
Today I’m delighted to welcome Becky Cherriman to the blog. She is a writer, creative writing facilitator and performer from Yorkshire. Her pamphlet, Echolocation is being launched this week and is available from Mother’s Milk Books – a poetic journey into single motherhood, infertility, the adoption process and more from a writer who has lived them…
One year on….
I came close to calling this blog post being a ‘proper’ writer as it’s a year since Convoy was published and so I’ve been reflecting on the past year. In lots of ways life goes on just as it did before publication; there’s still laundry to be done, children to be collected from school and…
My Writing process
Rebecca Gethin (Liar Dice, A handful of Water and What the Horses heard ) has kindly asked me to take part in a blog tour of writers where we all answer the same questions and tag other writers who will do the same the following week. A nice way to keep in touch and learn about new people! …
Convoy – the tour continues
With thanks to Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn and Rebecca Gethin who have been asking me thoughtful and thought-provoking questions about how the book came together and featuring Convoy on their blogs. Lindsay’s blog Rebecca Gethin Featured-writers
Convoy
Officially today was the day of publication for Convoy and so the book is going out into the world on a tide of good will. It and I have our supporters and cheerleaders and I’m particularly grateful to Jan Fortune of Cinnamon Press who believed in the book from its earliest stages I am mindful…
World Poetry Day Giveaway
I’m giving away a copy of Rebecca Gethin’s A Handful of Water in celebration of today. Just leave a comment saying why you’d like to read it.
Rebecca Gethin’s A Handful of Water
Today I’m delighted to welcome to my blog, Rebecca Gethin, whose second collection A Handful of Water, has just been published by Cinnamon Press. I enjoyed reading this so much that I asked our mutual publisher, Jan, to put me in touch with Becky so I could ask her a few questions. Becky lives on…
110 Days and counting
The useful thing about having your book listed for publication and appearing in ‘forthcoming titles’ is that some websites like Waterstones provide a form of count-down to publication so it’s 110 days to go. Between now and then I am going provide on this blog more information about the people who inspired the poems. There isn’t…