Commonplace - Maria Taylor

Comedy is, of course, a serious business. Ted Hughes once said that all poems are like animals with their own peculiar characters and habits...

Monday night was Shodfest at the Looking Glass in Leicester; an event to celebrate the launch of Shod by Mark Goodwin, published by Nine Arc...

As this blog progresses I hope to write more about events I've been attending. I should really write about events in July, because a fai...

A very lucky emerging poet is going to win a fabulous prize: http://www.picador.com/Poetry/prize/picadorpoetryprize.aspx deadline: 1st S...

Last Friday managed to get down to the Lyric Lounge,  in Leicester's New Walk Museum. In the morning went to a reading by Fatima Al Matt...

Imagine a soap bubble brushing the side of your face. Nice, isn't it? Now imagine a cricket ball. Okay you can get up now. The soap bubb...

Yesterday I had a moment of panic. It's the twenty-first century and people keep blogs. I had been planning to start one for a long whil...