Monthly Archives: February, 2012
THE NEXT STOP ON THE POP UP POETRY TOUR…
So, after a short break, we’re off on the next stage of the poetry tour. Please come with me to hear a prose poem, HAPPY, I THINK especially ‘shedified’ for the always inspirational Shedworking magazine. And then to the unraveling goddess herself, Susannah Conway for a reading of THE INTERRUPTION, and the chance to win [...]
The Pop Up Poetry Tour Goes Cross-Atlantic
And today I have feet (or mouth) on both sides of the Atlantic for my Virtual Poetry Reading! Join me at Caroline Smailes’s blog for a reading of SOCKS, and then jump aboard my private jet to the New York headquarters of Alice Elliott Dark – both women are great writers, lovely supporters of other [...]
Join me on a VIRTUAL POETRY READING
To celebrate the publication of my poetry collection, YOU DO NOT NEED ANOTHER SELF-HELP BOOK, a number of lovely bloggers have agreed to let me come on to their websites to read them (and you!) a different poem from the book. So I will be popping up all over the place this coming week. The [...]
A Private Tour of the Gardens at Canterbury Cathedral
It was a treat yesterday to visit two of the real city centre gardens in Canterbury – those at the Cathedral and also the Franciscan Gardens in the High Street. The visits were part of my creative project as Canterbury Laureate, and I’m writing literary responses to all the gardens I visit. How lucky am [...]
A private tour round the gardens of Canterbury Cathedral and the Franciscan Gardens
It was a treat yesterday to visit two of the real city centre gardens in Canterbury – those at the Cathedral and also the Franciscan Gardens in the High Street. The visits were part of my creative project as Canterbury Laureate, and I’m writing literary responses to all the gardens I visit. How lucky am [...]
Making Our Own Paths
I get a secret tingle of joy every year when I see this regimented line of daffodils come up in my local park, once so carefully planted by the side of a long forgotten path. It’s like a line to a memory the park can’t get rid of. A reminder every year that there are [...]
Paper Thin – a 50 word photostory
It’s not her fault the hotel walls are so thin. She’s almost looking forward to breakfast so she can guess who made so much noise. How is she expected to sleep? And with her meeting tomorrow. She puts the glass back to the wall to listen again. Yes, really disgusting. You can read more 50 [...]
What’s Left Behind – a rubbish short story
Not a judgement (hopefully) but a story I wrote based on this bit of rubbish… It’s a great idea, and you can read other stories based on other rubbish at Throwaway Lines here. Here’s how my story starts… I remember that summer was a time when love became a verb, and not just a noun. [...]
Dominic Parker reads Gertrude Jeckyll at the Secret Gardens of Sandwich
As I go round each of the gardens on my list in Kent, I’m getting the people who love the garden most to read a piece of garden or nature writing that I’ve selected for them. Dominic Parker, owner of the Secret Gardens of Sandwich, was my first* and so it was only right that [...]
How to steal your fiction ideas from real life…
Here are two of my recent online workshops for your half-time fun and delight… The first is a series of three workshops for Mslexia magazine and adapted from a chapter in the Short Circuit book about writing short stories. In it, I explore how you can successfully use the stories you hear from your family, [...]
