As you can tell from the title, last night was a very mixed pleasure. A poet who I shan't name (but who is extremely experienced as a performer, and should have known better) managed to screw two of the Open Mic readers. Yes, I was one of them. And yes, some of this may well …
NaPoWriMo 09 – day 1
Running She is running away from them, businessmen on the Avenue queued at the traffic lights, thinking of home. Leaves underfoot, great drifts as though she were running through the soft husks of summer. In dreams it feels like this – effortless. Easy. Stride and breath flowing like sunlight through half-bare trees. At the end of …
NaPoWriMo is upon us!
Don't know what happened to the month of March, but today is the 1st of April, which means I am now publicly committed to writing one poem every day for the next 30. Let's be honest: the only way I'm going to get a poem written every day is if I can clone myself a …
Splash! The Airing Cupboard turns 20
Twenty years ago, four women met in a room little bigger than a cupboard, to air their poems for the first time ... Or as founder Karen McNabb put it in her speech last night, "to share inspirations, aspirations, and desperations". Yesterday was the Airing Cupboard's 20th anniversary party, and the launch of the Airing Cupboard's …
Push, and the 2nd installment of the Autumn Readings
Busy night at the MCB last night. And a good one! First up was the launch of David Gregory's third collection, Push (Black Doris Press, 2008). I'm in a poetry group with David (the infamous "Poots Group"), so many of the poems were familiar to me. But seeing them all together was startling. He's a friend, …
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A Dark Feathered Art 