Thanks for listening to the Art of Now
Thanks to everyone who listened and commented on Recombinant Rhymes and DNA Art, broadcast last Monday on R4. If you missed it, catch up at BBC Sounds or on BBC iplayer.
Thinking Like a Poet: Mansfield Library Feb 2nd
Mansfield Library Poetry Writing workshop with Sue Dymoke on Sat 2nd Feb https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/whats-on/events/2019/02/thinking-poet-sue-dymoke-mansfield/
Tues 11th Dec: Beeston Poetry Workshop
Just putting finishing touches to my Thinking Like a Poet writing workshop taking place at Beeston Library on Tues 11th December 6.30 – 8pm. It’s coming up very soon. If … Continue reading
Prize-winning Arboretum Shapes
I can finally share with you my prize-winning poem Arboretum Shapes. (It won first prize in the Nottingham Green Spaces poetry competition) Hope you enjoy the poem and congratulations to … Continue reading
Finding & Keeping Poetry: The Harold Rosen Lecture, NATE Annual Conference 2016
‘Finding and Keeping Poetry’ is the title for the Harold Rosen Lecture I will be giving in June. The keynote is part of the 50 Years after Dartmouth research symposium at … Continue reading
Appeal to the Grammarians by Paul Violi : The Poetry Foundation
Paul Violi’s ‘Appeal to the Grammarians’: a fantastic poem arguing for new punctuation mark
Thanks to Ash Dickinson and Brenda Ainsley for their excellent contributions to yesterday’s Making Poetry Happen workshop at NWS. Both are pictured here in action. Thanks too to all our … Continue reading
‘Poems should give us pictures in our head’
Children from Torriano Infants School (in Sue Ellis and Amy Clifford’s chapter, Making Poetry Happen). If you want to know come to the workshop at Nottingham Writers’ Studio, 18th April
Do poets need rhymes?
Claudia Hammond’s ‘Mind Changers’ on Friday on BBC Radio 4 was about ‘Abraham Maslow and the Hierarchy of Needs’. This was an unexpected and welcome treat for me while trapped … Continue reading
