Becoming a writer
Dorothea Brande hit on something in this early book that has inspired writers for nearly a century
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Unsung people and places
My review of Emma Purshouse’s Unsung, published by Offa’s Press.…
Old Friends
It must have been 1984, the year after Kazuo Ishiguro…
Making it all worthwhile
‘The best moments in reading are when you come across…
Notebook Magic
making notebooks with hardly any cutting or gluing
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…
Trees anthology
I received a copy of this latest poety anthology from…
Coming Up
Some writing events I’m involved in over the next few…
Poetry Postcards
It’s the twentieth anniversary of Poetry on Loan and to…
Poetry Bus Magazine
Delighted to have two poems in Poetry Bus Magazine, Issue…
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…
Poetry pamphlet
This review of Wolverhampton Madonna is by Neil Leadbeater on writeoutloud.net : Jeff…
Stone steps I can’t help taking
These are the wonderful stone steps leading from the chapter…
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…
Feeling prehistoric
So I still use a pen and paper – a…