Poem of the Week: Hovis Presley ‘I Rely On You’
March 9, 2010
To mark International Women’s Day, Leicester was host to a reading from the first female dub poet, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze. The reading was held in The Y Theatre, the venue for Leicester’s monthly short fiction and poetry nights. What made this event more notable was that it was being recorded by Breeze’s publishers, Bloodaxe. The [...]
March 7, 2010
Yesterday saw the East Midlands’ second Writing Industries Conference at Loughborough University. This was my first time at this particualr conference, so I was somewhat apprehensive before I arrived (no help from National Rail and some signal failures near Derby). I was apprehensive about the conference subtitle too: ‘The End of the Print Age’. Was [...]
March 5, 2010
If you’re a bluechrome author and would like to take part in a special reading organised by Sue Guiney then get in touch. bluechrome authors are invited to read from their books at this event, with proceeds going to support the Cold Weather Shelters. Sue is known at the Camden and Lumen events and was in [...]
March 5, 2010
March 2010 Lest it be said we only review debut and contemporary authors, this month we review short story collections by Willa Cather, Flannery O’Connor and Joseph Payne Brennan, all of whom published many collections and are no longer with us. Also: contemporary but no debut author, Janice Galloway’s Collected Stories. We travel to Australia, New [...]
March 3, 2010
Ragged Raven, edited by Bob Mee and Janet Murch, is a poetry press based in Warwickshire. The press demonstrates the versatility common to smaller presses; not only do they publish individual collections (such as National Poetry Competition winner Christopher James’ first collection The Invention of Butterfly), but they also run an international poetry competition and [...]
March 3, 2010
The other night I had a dream. I know this seems random, but bare with me. I don’t usually remember my dreams. I don’t know if I don’t care or if I haven’t conditioned my mind to remember, I just don’t know. But this one I remembered.
March 2, 2010
There’s now a Facebook group for Camden and Lumen Poetry. This has been set up in response to feedback about the website, because people said they liked to be able to keep in touch online between events. This is particularly important for participants who enjoy the project but live all over the UK and beyond, [...]
March 1, 2010
Do not adjust your television sets. Welcome to March 2010, and the PoetCasting guest blogging month. As part of Save Our Presses I will be highlighting the riches of regional Arts events and introducing you to some new ways of engaging with small presses through the Internet. First, though, I should introduce myself. Since April 2007, I [...]
March 10, 2010
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