helena nelson
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Last year, it was Frances Cornford’s Collected Poems. Of course, she’s famous for “To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train”, which has been attacked in recent years by those who put the (wrong) emphasis on the lady’s fatness, instead of the fact that she’s wearing gloves. I love “Childhood”, which begins: I used to
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Having been caught up with the publicity for the 06 | 16 — The Fruitmachine reading at the Fruitmarket Gallery, I’ve almost neglected to tell you anything about another reading I’m involved this festival season. It’s at the Banshee Labyrinth a week today — Tuesday 21st of August — and also involves six poets, namely:
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Busy busy busy at the moment here. It’s good busy, though. I’ve proofed my proofs, sent ’em back and had author photos taken for the book (of which more in due course); I’m gearing up for Linlithgow Book Festival and this month’s various readings; and I’m working on a Scots language writing project in the
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The final poem in the pre-Troubadour series is by Helena Nelson, founder and editor of HappenStance press. It is very much in the spirit of her wonderfully quirky and deliciously, irreverantly playful pamphlet Unsuitable Poems. LikeI was like Read this poemHe was like You must be jokingI was like PleeeeaseHe was like Fancy a drink?
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I headed to Dumfries yesterday for the second of my two New Voice events with the Scottish Poetry Library. Lilias Fraser from the Library and I took the train to Lockerbie–a very civilised Virgin conveyance–where we were picked by Andrew Forster, who took us to the venue at Crichton Campus via a pretty decent coffee
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Thursday’s New Voice session went very well. For the first half of the evening, Helena Nelson gave a short workshop on how to raise your profile as a poet. In the second half, she interviewed me as a live case study. Poems were interspersed with the interview in roughly chronological order. Out of the 17
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The New Voices event in Dumfries I’m appearing at is not at Lochthorn Library, but the University of Glasgow Crichton Campus, which is to the south of Dumfries. Details are therefore as follows: New VoicesAndrew Philipwith Helena Nelson of Happenstance Press How do you set about building your profile as a new poet – getting
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One of the most exciting things to have happened to me on the writing front this year was my being asked to do a couple of events with the Scottish Poetry Library under its New Voices banner. Details of both are below. New Voices promotes poets who have published one collection so far. Usually, a
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