Commonplace - Maria Taylor

January still seems to be continuing. Okay, it's the 30th, still feels like a long month though. I've been reviewing quite a bit of ...

Just received an email from Lydia Towsey saying that a film of me reading/performing a couple of poems is up on You tube. It was recorded in...

On Monday the 10th of January, which seems like an awful long time ago now, we launched 'Hearing Voices' at the Western pub in Leice...

It's been a while since I blogged. There are many reasons for this, such as moving house and getting flu. When I say flu, I mean real fl...

Our Poetry travels take us slightly north again in this blog entry. On Sunday 19th September popped up to the Jam cafe in Hockley to the Nin...

On the first Sunday of every month, 'Rhymes and Wine' organised by Deborah Tyler-Bennett, is held in 'The Swan in the Rushes...

Well I'm very chuffed to have six followers! This has renewed my passion for blogging. Honestly, thanks! Currently I'm all askew; ha...

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...