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  • I know, I know – I haven’t said anything about how well the recent(ish) readings went. (Very well indeed, thanks.) I’ve been busy with family, writing and sending out poems (a rejection – the third out of the four submissions I’ve sent this year so far – arrived this afternoon and I’m actively planning more

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  • Click here to watch a video of “14.6”, the final poem from my set at Speak Up!, the Loud Poets international women’s day event last month. Be sure to check out the other videos from the evening that are going up on the Loud Poets YouTube channel. So far there are: Alice Tarbuck’s “Satanic Transformations”,

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  • Gracious, I’m almost getting to be an old hand at this online reading lark. I suppose twice counts something like “old hand” in the world of new technology, right? Anyway, it was a great pleasure to read with Isabel Galleymore, Chris McCabe and Paul Stephenson for the first of two special Transatlantic Poetry readings that

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  • I have been rather preoccupied lately with the latest course that I am tutoring for the Poetry School online and have also been kept out of further mischief by an exceedingly busy period at the day job, hence the paucity of posts in this neck of the virtual woods. However, I’m swiftly sticking my nose

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  • In the Huff

    Thanks to Robert Peake, I’m in the Huff again. That is, his interview with me and Rob A Mackenzie is now available in the culture section of the Huffington Post’s UK edition. I am hugely grateful to Robert for taking the time to ask us some penetrating and stimulating questions. In other news, I’ll be

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  • Book Launch 2.0

    It’s turning into Video Thursday here at Tonguefire, but I simply couldn’t resist posting this one. It’s funny, draws you in and it’s uncomfortably true to life. I knew nothing about this guy until Mairi Sharratt posted the video on Facebook today. Altogether a brilliant, subtle, highly entertaining piece of book promotion (or, rather, author promotion): (Gulp.

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