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 […]

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Exercises

Work Site

What does this image of a building site say to you? Is it destruction or creation? Write for 5 mins about the image, if you are stuck then start by […]

Exercises

Insectile Machinery

Machines can often appear insect like, the premise has fuelled many a story. What does this image say to you? If this machine was an insect what type would it […]

Exercises

Green Tanks

This tank is waiting to go into place in a soon to be housing estate, it has a kind of cyberpunk vibe with its luminous colour and obvious industrustrial but […]

Exercises

Robo Rob

This is Robo Rob who is part of a board game to help teach children about the basic concepts of programming but Rob also does jobs and could be called […]

Exercises

Book Roulette

This exercise works best with a group of people, each of you brings a book, using a dice you select pages and then lines to read out, take it in […]

Pep Talks

Week One Done!

The first week of our poem a day writing challenge is over! That it you survived it and better yet live to poem the tale! So how did you find […]

Exercises

Hands

Look at your hands, or pictures of hands….. what do you see? How are they constructed? What colour are they, are they rough hands or cubby young hands? Are the […]

Exercises

Collaborate

A fun exercise that can really help if you are stuck just staring at a blank screen or piece of paper, is to collaborate! Find another poet or would be […]

Guest Bloggers

Jason Conway – Guest Poet

I started my poetry journey back in July 2016 during a family holiday in Woolacombe UK. I had a surfing lesson and whilst swimming in the sea I gazed into […]

Exercises

Found Things

This image is from an archaeology dig at St Mary’s DeCrypt, a church that included an old school wrong – but what do you see? What do you think the […]