Special Interest Groups and Mailing Lists
Response writing is an wonderful way to get yourself writing, and can have an immediacy about it that other types of writing do not. However the most common way to […]
Is The Glass Full?
The water glass has long been a symbol of the pessimist and optimist, is the glass half full or half empty? As the pedant will inform you it is always […]
How the Sound
The sounds of words are very important in poetry, oo, ah, sssssss and so on. Think about the sounds that actually make up our language, pretend you teaching a small […]
Endangered
Think on the world and all of the life within it, scientists are currently debating weather to try and bring back extinct species – not just the wooly mammoths but […]
Crafting a Poem
Poems often need time to incubate within your head, one of the best ways of achieving this is to actually forget you are working on the poem. Immerse yourself in […]
Cats Sleep Anywhere
And it’s true they do as typified by the classic poem by Eleanor Farjeon (1881 – 1965). This can be endearing and cute or incredibly annoying especially if you are […]
Interviews
Interviews can be a bore, hassel or nerve racking experience depending on who you are – how do you react? Are you the sort to have vivid nightmares in the […]
The Writer at Work
Finding a space to write in that is right for you can be invaluable, weather it be the shed, a coffee shop or your bed at three in the morning. […]
Spring Time Garden
It is spring here in the UK and the plants are all popping out of the soil (a month late due to late snow but still…). If you have a […]