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Our paper focuses on issues of permission and the space for creative writing practice. he paper began as a reflective piece on space and face-to-face poetry workshop practices but, because of the way the pandemic is potentially changing so much about how writers of all ages are able to work, we thought it was important to begin to explore some of the new challenges and opportunities for creative writing post-COVID.
The programme of workshops is now well underway and it is great that some poems have already been submitted for…
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/
This poem was written last spring as streets fell silent and we peered out warily. It was one of very…
I could spend days recommending favourite poets and specific poems and still not get to the bottom of my list…
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…
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.
Caroline’s Bird’s The Air Year was without doubt this year’s most breath-taking read. The sweep and swirl of her fifth…
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.
I have two new poetry-related academic publications which will I hope interest you: Published on line this month: Hennessy, J.,…
Last week I participated in a fascinating online event to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2020. It was organised by Junction…
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, 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.
Thinking of all friends in Japan today (August 6th) a very difficult seventy fifth anniversary day. I wrote this poem…
For this final example of design work based on my poems by NTU Graphic Design students, I have chosen an…
A delightful short poem film by Maria Vidal
One of my absolute favourite poets is Miroslav Holub who was not only a world class poet but an eminent…
I wrote Closed World many years ago as a result of playing around with ideas about found texts and revisiting…
Taking the lead from John Harvey, I also want to share a poem with you. It’s not new but perhaps…
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.
Coming very soon (This Saturday Feb 15th) DNA Poetry: writing about science and the natural world: The collaborative DNA Time poetry…
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.
As this new decade begins I am excited to start a new job as an Associate Professor at Nottingham Trent…
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…
And here’s another very short poem film First Blood which links with the National Poetry Day theme of Truth. This…
Thanks to the brilliant Rebecca Goldsmith for springing my poem Roaming Range right off the page so wonderfully. All children…
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.
