Next Saturday I’ll be reading alongside some fantastic poets as part of Poetry in Palmers Green. Poetry in Palmers Green has become something of an institution since it was set up in 2006 after Palmers Green Bookshop closed. Poets Katherine Gallagher and Myra Schneider were determined to keep going something of the warmth and generosity […]
Continue ReadingI’m teaching a new poetry course in Nottingham for the lovely Writing School East Midlands at the end of this month (oh my god, it’s February already) looking at some of the building blocks of poetry – image, structure, syntax and well, good old words! It’s called Leap Into Poetry. It will be a good […]
Continue Reading‘Here comes the nimble-footed, silver-tongued Markham…’ …was how Boyd Tonkin introduced EA Markham’s first Tindal Street book of short stories, Meet Me in Mozambique, to The Independence readers of 2005. And it’s a good and fair description – here was a man unafraid to use complex syntax to deal with straightforward ideas and straightforward […]
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