Poetry Place free writing workshops on Miner2Major Sherwood Forest Region. New dates added: https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/whats-on/events/poetry-place-writing-archive-photography-sherwood-forest-area-online-workshop-2/
Spring Learning
This poem was written last spring as streets fell silent and we peered out warily. It was one of very…
Some poets and poems to enjoy on International Women’s Day 2021
I could spend days recommending favourite poets and specific poems and still not get to the bottom of my list…
Poetry Place: Sherwood Forest online poetry workshops
https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/whats-on/events/poetry-place-writing-archive-photography-sherwood-forest-area-online-workshop/ There are just a few places left on this first pair of free Inspire online poetry workshops, funded by…
The Poetry Table: Politics of Poetic Craft
I’ve spent a late snowy afternoon online today in the good company of Hafsah Aneela Bashir, Yomi Sode and Anthony Joseph, the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellows 2019-20.
Poetry Dispatches from 2020
Caroline’s Bird’s The Air Year was without doubt this year’s most breath-taking read. The sweep and swirl of her fifth…
Translating Kazakh poetry
Last week I participated in a collaborative Kazakh poetry translation workshop run by the Poetry Translation Centre. The evening was great fun and I learned a good deal about Kazakh language and poetry.
New publications
I have two new poetry-related academic publications which will I hope interest you: Published on line this month: Hennessy, J.,…
Science and Poetry: Atomic poems
Last week I participated in a fascinating online event to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2020. It was organised by Junction…
Vision: some favourite poems for NPD
Happy National Poetry Day 2020 everyone. I hope you are feeling excited and nurtured by all the poetry treats that are winging your way today – and that you can store some of them up to see you through these difficult autumn days. The theme of this year’s NPD is ‘Vision’ which is a lovely subject, open to many different interpretations. Here are some of my personal favourites on that broad theme…
Fires: Deryn Rees-Jones
Fires, is an exquisite work by Deryn Rees-Jones with images by Charlotte Hodes. It is hard to pin down exactly what Fires is. You might call it a long poem, a lyric essay or a collage of ideas about the nature of poetry.
What they left behind
Thinking of all friends in Japan today (August 6th) a very difficult seventy fifth anniversary day. I wrote this poem…
Dollies: an animation by Carina Barber
For this final example of design work based on my poems by NTU Graphic Design students, I have chosen an…
Testing the Water
A delightful short poem film by Maria Vidal
Suggested Poetry and Science reading
One of my absolute favourite poets is Miroslav Holub who was not only a world class poet but an eminent…
Closed World
I wrote Closed World many years ago as a result of playing around with ideas about found texts and revisiting…
Listen to the Light
Taking the lead from John Harvey, I also want to share a poem with you. It’s not new but perhaps…
Translating Rilke, Montale and Tang Dynasty poets
Shoestring Press poets Matthew Barton, Roy Marshall and Martin Stannard gave us a marvellous evening of poetry in translation at Five Leaves Bookshop last week. Their approaches to translating from Italian, German and Chinese were very different, reflecting their own distinct poetic voices.
DNA Poetry: writing about science and the natural world
Coming very soon (This Saturday Feb 15th) DNA Poetry: writing about science and the natural world: The collaborative DNA Time poetry…
Girls on Swings: a new poem film
The film of Girls on Swings was made by NTU third year Media undergraduates. It is a companion piece to two other poem films Roaming Range and First Blood.
New Poetry Research in 2020
As this new decade begins I am excited to start a new job as an Associate Professor at Nottingham Trent…
Anthology making: reading more, deepening engagement
Widening the poetryscope: in exploring how their anthology is constructed, students should be encouraged to widen what I would like to call their poetryscopes… they should argue over how they might edit or rearrange the classroom anthology that they are studying…
First Blood: a poem film for National Poetry Day (2)
And here’s another very short poem film First Blood which links with the National Poetry Day theme of Truth. This…
Roaming Range: a poem film for National Poetry Day (1)
Thanks to the brilliant Rebecca Goldsmith for springing my poem Roaming Range right off the page so wonderfully. All children…
Stanley Middleton in Sherwood
It is my honour to pay tribute to one of the dearest writer friends I have known: Stanley Middleton. Today, Thursday 1st August 2019, marks the centenary of his birth and a plaque will be unveiled on the house in Caledon Road, Sherwood which was the family home for over forty eight years.
