Mark Burnhope
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Happy new year, everyone! Sorry I’m a week behind the time in spreading the good wishes, but a felicitation is certainly better late than never. Anyway, on the writing front, the new year has certainly been well hanselled for me. I was surprised and delighted last week to see that Robert Peake had chosen me
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Well, you make your little noises in your own wee virtual glen and then, before you know it, there’s a rumble of snow elsewhere. I’m delighted to see that not only has Mark Burnhope’s blog been picked out as the featured blog for today on the NaPoWriMo site, but his growing number of abnominals is
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Well, when I dreamt up the abnominal, I had no idea it would have taken on a life of its own already by now. I’ve been pleased with how productive a form it is — seven poems in three weeks is a pretty good rate! — but it has pleased me tremendously that others have
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Regular readers of this blog will recall that, last year, I tutored an online course for the Poetry School. It was a thoroughly rewarding experience (not least, but certainly not solely, because one of my students was Mark Burnhope, a highly talented poet in his 20s; as regular readers of this blog will also recall,
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Mark Burnhope enters the ranks of Salt Publishing this week when his debut pamphlet, The Snowboy, is published in the Salt Modern Voices series. Mark, an exciting young poet, will be popping by Tonguefire in August to talk about the pamphlet, poetry, disability and faith. Meanwhile, to whet your appetite in a slightly unorthodox fashion,
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I haven’t been “on holiday” for years, but I’ve lived by the sea for almost two years now, so the poetry which springs to mind is the stuff which has accompanied me to the beach. My criteria for good holiday poetry: something which grabs and keeps hold (because it’s rip-roaringly funny, maybe, or emotionally gripping);
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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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On Saturday, the fine London-based Donut Press celebrated its 10th birthday with a quintuple book launch — Matthew Caley, Jude Cowan, AB Jackson, Wayne Holloway-Smith and Ahren Warner all launched their new pamphlets. I’m particularly looking forward to ABJ’s Apocrypha. I’ve heard him read from the sequence before and will be at the Glasgow launch
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