Time for a catch up about what I’ve been up to during the last month. In the middle of June I went off to leafy St John’s Wood and the Liberal Jewish Synagogue for ‘The Poet’s Quest for Peace’, a one day festival of poetry and conversation. I’d volunteered to help with the English PEN…
Category: Ways into Poetry
Ways into Poetry – A Year with Rilke
Often when I suggest to people that it would be good for them to read more poetry they sigh and reply ‘I wish I could but I just don’t have the time’. But we all make the time to eat every day don’t we and spending time on poems is another form of nourishment. Part…
Ways into Poetry – Write a poem a day (PAD)
During April there are various places and groups around the internet that you can join to write a poem a day during the month. It is not too late to join in.Foremost of these is the challenge set by Robert Lee Brewer, Poet and Senior Content Editor at the Writer’s Digest community and today the…