Last night was the first Reading’s Poets’ Café for six months. The gap in the calendar was due to the refurbishment of South Street Arts Centre which is almost, but not quite, finished. However, despite a few improvements which are yet to be finalised, the venue we’ve been using for a good number of years […]
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A slim volume of poems …
Just a little blog from me HERE (via The Worshipful Company of Management Consultants – unlikely bedfellows, you may think!) about putting together my slim volume of poems … ‘It may only be a slim volume of 51 pages, easily lost on a book shelf, but to me it’s a slice of my life which […]
Continue reading‘Falling for Grace’: a Communal Writing Project with Bracknell & Wokingham College
It’s been my pleasure to work with the Communal Writing for Improvers students over the last half term and together they have produced this wonderful ghost story set in 1949. The authors are: Mo Abu-Bakra, Paul Bieniek, John Demetriou, Heather Dyson, Janet Foster, Mihaela Marinova, Inga Oake, Ingrid Oake and Maria Petrova FALLING FOR GRACE […]
Continue readingMy winning week at Cyprus Well
My poem, ‘Trust and the Horse’ was lucky enough to have been awarded First Prize in the 2015 Charles Causley Poetry Competition. HERE is my blog and a poem from my week’s residency at Cyprus Well, Charles Causley’s former home.
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