I'm so happy I can now reveal the cover and title of my pamphlet. The beautiful cover is by Alice Parker and I love it. The clouds of lockdown certainly lift a little whenever I look at it. Launch month is September and getting closer - I can't wait.
I attended a wonderful Zoom reading by Rebecca Watts for her new collection 'Red Gloves' (Carcanet Press) and immediately bought the collection on Kindle. I'd much rather have the actual book, but the post is taking so long to get to Portugal and I didn't want to wait, as her poems were so inspiring and so full of light and air.
We managed a 'real people' Stanza meeting in my garden and shared a picnic lunch. We worked really hard and did some good critiquing. In some way, we seemed to cut out the padding and just went in for the kill, and it worked really well. Our masks were a bit of a problem for reading our poems but we managed okay and it was great to get together again.
My family were due to fly here from the UK tomorrow but all that has now been cancelled. Instead of making beds I'm making poems! A very different summer to previous years :-(
I'm still trying to get to grips with Instagram and am not posting any more pictures on there until my feed is looking a little bit more professional. At the moment it's a complete mess but (promise to self), I WILL sort it out.
