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On This Day She

On This Day She is the new book from Jo Bell, Tania Hershman and Ailsa Holland – a page-a-day history book featuring 366 women who have earned a place in history, but haven’t always got it.

Posted byJo BellFebruary 11, 2021July 26, 2021Posted inReadings and writings

Together, alone

Greetings to you, poets, on this Christmas Day 2020 – and what a very unusual Christmas it is, with its festive isolation and glittering toilet roll shortages. The cliché would have it that this is a time of togetherness, but many of you are on your own at Christmas for the first time, and feelingContinue reading “Together, alone”

Posted byJo BellDecember 25, 2020December 24, 2020Posted inReadings and writings

#28: Comfort and joy

Give yourself a day off from the end of the world. Turn off the damn news and completely relax into today’s theme – which is comfort and joy.

Posted byJo BellDecember 2, 2020December 1, 2020Posted inReadings and writingsTags:TPMW

#27: Lesson learned

I give you a subject which could touch on lockdown if you choose, but equally might take you in an entirely different direction. Write about learning something.

Posted byJo BellDecember 1, 2020November 30, 2020Posted inReadings and writingsTags:TPMW

#26: Credo

“Waste no more time arguing what a good person is. Be one.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations I like Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. It contains many of the beliefs I hold dear. I also enjoy what he has to say about cucumbers (we’ll come back to that). The quotation above would be part of my credo, which isContinue reading “#26: Credo”

Posted byJo BellNovember 30, 2020November 29, 2020Posted inReadings and writingsTags:TPMW

#25: Open the door

Anything can serve as the signpost to a poem – including a signpost. Go and open the door you’ve been living behind so much. At least there’ll be a draught.

Posted byJo BellNovember 29, 2020November 28, 2020Posted inReadings and writingsTags:TPMW

#24: Little and Large

A few days left of lockdown in England, and also of our online poetry community, Try to Praise the Mutilated World. The prompts are here every day, and free. Access to our Facebook workshopping group costs £10, and lasts for the duration of this lockdown. The group is a place for mutual feedback, and is private soContinue reading “#24: Little and Large”

Posted byJo BellNovember 28, 2020November 27, 2020Posted inReadings and writingsTags:TPMW

#23: Introducing…..

We are into the last week of English lockdown #2, and also of our online poetry community, Try to Praise the Mutilated World. The prompts are here every day, and free. Access to our Facebook workshopping group costs £10, and lasts for the duration of this lockdown. The group is a place for mutual feedback, and isContinue reading “#23: Introducing…..”

Posted byJo BellNovember 27, 2020November 26, 2020Posted inReadings and writings1 Comment on #23: Introducing…..

#22: Energy

Lockdown in England is in its last week, and so is our online poetry community, Try to Praise the Mutilated World. The prompts are here every day, and free. Access to our Facebook workshopping group costs £10, and lasts for the duration of this lockdown. The group is a place for mutual feedback, and is private soContinue reading “#22: Energy”

Posted byJo BellNovember 26, 2020November 26, 2020Posted inReadings and writings

#21: Courage, mon brave

We are 3/4 of the way through lockdown #2 in England, and weathering it in online poetry community, Try to Praise the Mutilated World. Prompts are here every day, and free. Access to our Facebook workshopping group costs £10, and lasts for the duration of this lockdown. The group is a place for mutual feedback, and isContinue reading “#21: Courage, mon brave”

Posted byJo BellNovember 25, 2020November 25, 2020Posted inReadings and writingsTags:TPMW

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