Coming out way earlier than is usual, the results of the 2015 Kathleen Grattan Award have appeared on the ever-interesting BookSellers news page. A big congratulations to this year’s winner, (drumroll please) … Michael Harlow! Yay! The way OUP have handled the results has varied a bit each year. It used to be quite a strongly guarded secret …
Poem in progress – a cento for Yogi
Déjà Vu a cento i.m. Lawrence Peter ‘Yogi’ Berra It gets late early out there. It's déjà vu all over again. We have deep depth. He’s amphibious. If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be. When you come to a fork in the road, (What time is it? You mean now?) take it. Pair up …
CPC Poetry Readings – the 2015 edition
Daffodils? Check. Hayfever? Check. Blackbirds negotiating sex and territory from 4am? Check. It must be time again for the Canterbury Poets’ Collective Poetry in Performance readings! You can download your own copy of the poster by clicking here. Or just feast your eyes below: As always, a mixture of well known, not-so-well-known, local and visiting poets: Sept …
Amberley Writers’ Teaparty
For those of you who wonder what exactly it is that writers do (when they do whatever it is that makes them writers), this Sunday will provide you with the chance to see three of us discussing our work, our (writing-related) play and our preferences in the high tea department. Yes, I’m talking about the …
Five years on … and a badly kept secret
Five years ago today that the earth decided it was time for a change, and went off exloring the surrounding areas. Five years since sleepy, flat, boring Canterbury became an altogether too exciting place to try and and do anything like "settle". Five years since phrases like "terra firma" (I can't be the only person …
A Dark Feathered Art 