Commonplace - Maria Taylor

How many years must a mountain exist, before it is washed to sea? How many Gs are in Pingggk, the name of Leicester's newest spoken word...

The Nottingham Contemporary is a wonderful place, and despite having been open for 18 months or so this was my first visit. I read with Em...

Last Monday was the date for another Leicester Shindig with not only me reading but Kathy Bell, Matt Merritt and Matthew Stewart. All three ...

Dear Poem I am working on, yeah, you. You who are doing my head in this evening, a Saturday night no less. You have deliberately been playin...

I have been pretty lucky publication wise this year. There's quite a bit to look forward to in terms of magazines. I have work either pu...

March, what happened in March? Oh, we had the plumber round and the following also happened... Aoife Mannix was tip top at Word! at the begi...

There's a lot going on in Leiecster, all sorts, connected with the world of poetry and spoken word, such as WORD!, Pinnngk! (spelling ma...

Hello again. This is a special blog post dedicated to being absent. Last week the Nottingham Poetry Series hosted a evening with Matthew Wel...

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...