Originally posted on Some Days You Do …:
THE U.S. BOTANICAL GARDENS WASHINGTON D.C. The floor is azure blue tile slick with the residue…
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…
Favourite poetry listened to or read in 2019
There is so much great poetry to choose from in 2019 that it’s hard to know where to begin. The…
Calling Beeston writers…
Poetry Place writing workshop at Beeston Library 11.30 – 1pm, Nov 30th. Come along and write.
Poetry Place: Beeston workshop 30th Nov
In this experimental, place-based writing workshop you will try out different ways of creating poetry focused on Beeston.
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…
