Category Archives: five sentences
Five Sentences with… Vicky Wilson
What a pleasure today to welcome Vicky Wilson to the website. Anyone interested in poetry and writing in Kent will probably know Vicky already. Or may have seen her around busy making sure poetry is part of our lives… She was Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2007–2008 and the winner of the 2010 competition [...]
Five Sentences with … MAGGIE HARRIS
Today, it’s my great pleasure to invite Maggie Harris to finish my sentences. Maggie was born in Guyana and have been living in the UK since 1971. She runs poetry workshops for all age groups and was a founding member of The Write Women. You can read some of her poems here and you could [...]
Five Sentences with… Dan Purdue
To be honest, Dan Purdue’s blog profile doesn’t give away that much about him: My name’s Dan. I write fiction – mainly short stories, but with a novel approaching completion. Well, sort of. I’m thirty-something, I live in Worcestershire, I don’t have a cat. But it was a pleasure to meet him recently on an [...]
Five Sentences with … Peggy Riley
With all this talk about starting a novel, I’m very pleased to bring Peggy Riley to the blog to finish my five sentences. Peggy Riley is a writer and playwright living in Kent, and one of the reasons I was so keen to feature her is that, not only is she a fab writer you [...]
Five Sentences with … Anthony McGowan
Today, it’s my GREAT pleasure to have Anthony McGowan on here to finish my sentences. Anthony’s latest book The Donut Diaries, has an unlikely hero… Dermot Milligan’s got problems. He’s overweight and hooked on donuts. He has a pushy, over-achieving mother, and a father who spends all his time hiding in the loo. His sisters, [...]
Five sentences with…. Tania Hershman
It’s a big excitement for me today to welcome Tania Hershman here to finish my sentences. And although it’s unlikely, I’m hoping that one reader at least doesn’t know Tania, so I can be the one to introduce you to her stories. They are wonderful. Polished jewels of poetry and thought. Here’s one of my [...]
Five Sentences with – ABEGAIL MORLEY
Today, I’m very happy to bring Abegail Morley onto the blog to finish her five sentences. It’s very hard to know when to stop singing Abegail’s praises! She’s guest poetry editor at The New Writer. Her collection How to Pour Madness into a Teacup (Cinnamon 2009) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best First Collection [...]
Five Sentences with … JOHN SIDDIQUE
I’ve been a fan of John Siddique’s poetry for some time, that lovely mix of sexiness, playfulness and joy of beauty which doesn’t hide the more serious undercurrents of a writer who wants to help make a better world. It was a great pleasure to get to know him a bit better in Canterbury recently, [...]
In Five Sentences – Clare Best
Clare Best came to read to us at the Kent and Sussex Poetry Society recently, and absolutely wowed everyone who was lucky enough to be there. She read from her latest book, Excisions just out from Waterloo Press, and, amongst other things, allowed us to share her memories of her father (and his love of [...]
In Five Sentences – Scott Pack
I’m loving getting people to finish my Five Sentences, but one thing that’s surprising me is how clearly the individual voices come across. Now, obviously you don’t know this yet because you’ve only had one (even if that was Jonathan Pinnock) but today I’m very very happy to welcome Scott Pack to the blog. I’ve [...]
