Notebook Magic
making notebooks with hardly any cutting or gluing
Jeff Phelps
Things are Looking Up
Looking Up - poetry anthology produced by Trowbridge Stanza poetry group in aid of Dorothy House charity
City Voices at twenty three
I headed up to the Lych Gate Tavern, Wolverhampton for City Voices on 9th December, which Simon Fletcher has been hosting since its beginning in 2002. It was Simon’s last evening hosting City Voices. He is moving onto new projects.…
Trees anthology
I received a copy of this latest poety anthology from Offa’s Press, edited by Simon Fletcher and Kuli Kohli. Native trees, deciduous trees, evergreens, foreign trees, climbed trees, remembered, forgotten and fallen trees, haiku and prose poems. So many ways…
Coming Up
Some writing events I’m involved in over the next few months: Sunday 2nd Feb. 2020, 10.30am – Square Routes. As part of Wolverhampton Literature Festival I’m leading a walk to look at some of the city’s squares and public spaces.…
Poetry Postcards
It’s the twentieth anniversary of Poetry on Loan and to celebrate PoL commissioned poets from across the West Midlands to write on the subject of Anniversary. Poems had to fit on a postcard – so not too long in the…
Poetry Bus Magazine
Delighted to have two poems in Poetry Bus Magazine, Issue Eight. This magazine from Ireland really looks great. I loved the clear type face. The cover is The Crown by Carl-Martin Sandvold, which was runner up in the 2019 BP…
Postcard Poems
New Poetry on Loan postcards coming out in October 2019
River Passage app
River Passage, the poem set on the river Severn is now available as a downloadable app. from the i-tunes store. ‘If there is such a thing as a perfect poem, this must surely be it’ – Neal Leadbeater in writeoutloud…
Poetry pamphlet
This review of Wolverhampton Madonna is by Neil Leadbeater on writeoutloud.net : Jeff Phelps has been writing and publishing poetry for more than 30 years. He is co-editor of The Poetry of Shropshire (Offa’s Press, 2013) and has had two novels published by Tindal…
Stone steps I can’t help taking
These are the wonderful stone steps leading from the chapter house at Wells Cathedral in Somerset. The chapter house is at the top of the flight, flooded with its own light. Look at the way the steps from the right…
When we write about places – just looking
Lovingly ploughed Shropshire fields give up their ideas for poetry