poetry
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It has been a deeply unproductive day, so I thought I’d catch up with a little blogging and, simultaneously, remind myself of some recent productivity. The current exhibition at the good ole SPL features a selection of work created as part of Poetry Beyond Text, an extensive, exciting interdisciplinary research programme run jointly by the…
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Thought I’d draw a couple of competitions to your attention. First, on these shores, the National Poetry Competition is open for entries (actually, it has been since last month; I’ve been slow off the mark on this one). Now in its 34th year, the competition is one of the world’s biggest. This year’s judges are…
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It seems that the rapture will come, according to some people, on Saturday. So I thought I’d share with you all my predictions for the end of the world: It Comes to the Crunch When the people heard this was the last day of the world some headed home to pack their cameras and feed…
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A while back, reporting on Perth Writers’ Day, I said this: I came away from the workshop with a fresh idea — well, fresh for me at least — for getting myself writing regularly again. For two of the exercises, I used a list of 10 random words provided by this random word generator. I…
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The second leg of our Out of the Veg Box mini tour was the Birdcage in Norwich. We arrived there in good time and met Joshua Jones in the Waterstones by the castle, a meeting point chosen largely by our meanderings through the town to find the Birdcage. Josh took us to the pub, which…
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I count myself highly fortunate that, with the Out of the Veg Box mini-tour last week, I had an almost immediate opportunity to put into practice what I’d learned at Cove Park the previous week (see here and here for that). Rob A Mackenzie and I put together the tour way before the opportunity at…
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Some cracking news: AB Jackson’s Donut pamphlet Apocrypha is the next PBS pamphlet choice. Well done, ABJ and Donut! It’s an excellent publication — tremendous poetry, beautifully designed — and a well-deserved accolade. If you don’t already have it, snap it up: it’s a limited edition of 250 copies. While you’re at it, you might…
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Details of my mini tour to Cambridge, Norwich and London with Rob A Mackenzie have just gone up on the Salt blog. The tour also features Liane Strauss in London and Joshua Jones in Norwich, with open mic spots in Cambridge too. Hope to see some of you at one or another of the readings!
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Stephen Welsh has posted the newspaper poem he read in the final round of the Friendly Slam last week. Very good to be able to read it. I recommend you take a look, because it was definitely one of the stand-out poems of the evening, however modest Mr Welsh is about it. The poem itself…
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As many poets gear up for NaPoWriMo, in which they attempt to spend every day in April writing a poem*, I’ve signed up for InterNaPwoWriMo, in which poets from throughout the world post a pwoermd** a day during April. Much more manageable; simultaneously far zanier and far saner. A pwoermd is, as the name suggests,…
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What? A six-session workshop focusing on form and structure as an engine of poetry, similar to my popular and successful course for the Poetry School Online last autumn. A mix of reading, writing exercises/assignments and feedback on poems. When? Early May to mid June this year on a Wednesday* 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. Where?…
Amy Jo Philip 