Tag: poem
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10th January 1914
My first poem of 2014 My poems are nearly always spontaneous things and my poetry muse can be fast and furious or go on vacation for months. Regardless of which, I set up a ‘Poems (insert year)’ folder every year and by the end of each year have normally amassed quite a few. This one came…
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21st September 2012
Some time in early July Fourteen years ago (and two months to be precise) I discovered I was pregnant. It was early days so I hadn’t had a scan and had no idea at this point that I was carrying a wee little boy. It was the beginning of something very special, but also the start of a very…
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3rd February
A Poem Sometimes writing – what I think of as ‘proper writing’ goes a bit awol. It happens to the best of us I think… life gets in the way, we’re tired, distracted, anxious, or all of these. Sometimes we have to push through this and there’s no doubt in my mind that writing is…
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30 September
Pencil holding fingers – an editing workshop How do you feel about the editing process? Is it something you relish, or something you find difficult and face with a sense of dread? Almost exactly a year ago, I attended an editing workshop at Nottingham Writers’ Studio, an incredible experience which had a lasting effect on me for…