Saturday 17 September 2016

Not at The Poetry Book Fair!


I'm really disappointed not to have made it to The Poetry Book Fair. Paper Swans Press are using one of my poems (Through a Gap in the Hedge) in their goody bag. It would have meant just one flight too many and I would have had to fly there-and-back in a space of hours. I know it's impossible to do everything but I do miss a lot of wonderful poetry events in the UK. On a brighter note, I will be at The Hurst at the end of the month for an Arvon course and am really looking forward to it.

My blog has lapsed once again over the summer. I do try to keep writing, but family take centre stage and turn the house into a holiday camp in August.

I love the autumn and starting new things. I've just started a course with The Poetry School Transreading Spain, and start another next week Secrets and Lies. I think I would be lost without The Poetry School. I hope taking on two courses at once won't be too much. I just couldn't choose between the two so I went for both. I travel less in the winter so should have more time to concentrate on assignments.

I've just been checking what poems I have out and about at the moment. There seem to be 10 looking for homes. Some have been tied up since April which I think is too long. There are a lot of competitions and submission windows this month, and as a slow writer I have to choose carefully where to send my poems. 

I won't brood on The Poetry Book Fair but might sneak a peep at Twitter to see how it's going.

Is Venice shrinking?

Is Venice shrinking?