Monday 13 April 2015

Magazine Swap


We had a great Stanza meeting last week. I'd lent the group some of my magazines, well marked with my name so that I get them back, and they had to find poems they liked and disliked and we discussed them. They then found a poem that inspired them to write one of their own. Sometimes it's a struggle to get them to read contemporary poems, so this was a great success.

It went so well that we're repeating it for our next meeting in May and they have swapped magazines with each other. Will I ever get them back?

Spring has really come to the Sintra hills and I'm attacking the brambles in the garden that seem to have sprung out of nowhere. They are always lurking ready to attack, and when we bought the house we had brambles in, the now orchard, that came over my head. We had no idea that there were apple and plum trees underneath.

A really short post today as I'm off to London tomorrow and am trying to get some poems ready for a couple of competitions. It would be great if I could learn how to stop fiddling around with them forever.

Is Venice shrinking?

Is Venice shrinking?