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Tag: time to sing before the dark

Posted on 30 January 201931 January 2019

time to sing – and enter a competition

Time to wheel out the first of my Pimping the Book competitions for time to sing before the dark. And for this first competition, your task is to write a glosa. What the heck is a glosa? Well, according to my notes from the class I taught in 2015 on Unusual Forms: The glosa (or glose) is an …

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Posted on 14 January 201914 January 2019

HTFIIANYAA?! (or, How On Earth Is It A New Year Already Again??)

I did vaguely plan to do my usual signing off for the year post at the end of December, but then it turned out it was actually January. Not sure how that happened, but there you go. Which does at least spare me the embarrassment of doing a post summing up all the things that I …

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Posted on 13 November 2018

They followed me home on Friday …

Posted on 25 October 2018

Book launch – Helen Bascand’s time to sing before the dark

Yes, it’s finally about to happen. The text has been given the green light, the cover is amazing, and even the venue is booked. Helen Bascand’s posthumous fifth collection, time to sing before the dark, will be launched by Bernadette Hall on the evening of 13th December 2018. It’s been a long time getting to this …

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Posted on 27 December 201727 December 2017

Signing off for 2017

Another year, another set of domestic disasters, rejections, frustrations, minor triumphs and bursts of silliness. Oh, and some poetry too. It all began really well, with winning the January Rattle Ekphrastic competition. I still like the poem too, which is good. (And not always the way these things unpack). But then I failed completely to …

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