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…
Jeff Phelps
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
Sometimes it’s good to be a learner writer
We did a writing workshop on Saturday 24th September at Morville village hall in deepest Shropshire. Ruth Cameron led us through the story of Ceridwen, the powerful sorceress of Welsh legend, and we took turns to imagine ourselves inside the…
Feeling prehistoric
So I still use a pen and paper – a red one at that – well, sometimes. I like the feel of the biro on paper. I like the look of it, the messiness of it. Sometimes I write in…
Writing or typing
Thoughts from American journalist, essayist and environmentlist Rebecca Solnit on lithub : ‘Remember that writing is not typing.
Words on Water
On the morning of 20th August we went on the narrow boat, The Shropshire Lad from Lyneal Wharf to Ellesmere and back. We looked at poems inspired by canals and water, learnt about the wildlife and about the chequered history…
Flashes of inspiration
Blakenhall Writers’ Group in Wolverhampton asked me to lead a Saturday morning workshop about short stories… it’s flash fiction, and they’re preparing an anthology, as a look at their website will tell you, on the subject of ‘identity.’ Entries from…
Coming soon
This Autumn looks busy already. It’s a great season for being productive and doing things. I’ve been putting my two novels, Painter Man and Box of Tricks into a format for production as e-books, the first time they’ve ever been…
Wenlock Poetry Festival
Wenlock Poetry Festival runs from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th April this year in the lovely surroundings of Much Wenlock in Shropshire. There’s always an amazing atmosphere with stuff going on at The Edge arts centre, Wenlock Pottery, the parish…
Wellington Literary Festival 2014
I’m delighted to have been asked to lead the annual writing workshops for Wrekin Writers as part of the Wellington (Shropshire) Literary Festival. now in its eighteenth year. Wellington must be one of the few literary festivals where most of the events are…