Tiller girl
If you had to choose one artefact from your old house as a memento for your new one, what would it be?
The Slow Machine
‘Can you write a half-hour ‘docupoem’ about your life on the canals?’ said Mair Bosworth, the BBC producer. Yes, I thought. Of course I can. Piece of cake. Easy.
Reader, it wasn’t easy.
Pocket full of poems
As Socrates so nearly said, the unexamined handbag is not worth carrying.
Valentine’s Day Poesie
Happy Valentine’s Day. Or as we know it in our family, Simon’s birthday. Or as you may call it, the Festival of Unusually Expensive Flowers.
‘Tis the year’s midnight….
Light a candle, light a fire and read these two Nocturnes to brighten the evening.
Jo Bell’s Rules for Poetry
Rules are made to be broken and you may be an innovator, a wild-card, a genius.
But probably not.
Happy Thanksgiving
Some poets dislike National Poetry Day. ‘Doesn’t poetry happen every day?’ they say. Yes, of course it does. Of course it does. But here’s a secret…
