Commonplace - Maria Taylor

Hello world, I've been having many technological gripes at the moment. The television has had a nervous breakdown since the digital swit...

The Leicester shindigs jointly held by Nine Arches Press and Crystal Clear Creators have a real sense of buzz about them and last Monday...

UTR 8 - with added Cow! The other day I got my new copy of 'Under the Radar' and I really think it's a very strong and m...

  [N.B. There's no reason for why I called this blog post 'Frog' I couldn't think of a better title and Roy's ...

Sunday, around  midnight, found me in the departures lounge of Larnaca Airport. Over a sunburnt shoulder I read the headlines that Amy Wi...

This one's for you, Ms. Tyler-Bennett There’s so much going on at the moment, festival season is in full swing. Yours truly is havin...

Yes, this image is indeed relevant. I don’t normally like to write ‘instructive’ blog posts, but I was having a chat about the subject of...

The new issue of Tears in the Fence arrived through the letterbox, featuring Alan Baker, Janet Sutherland, David Caddy and lots of others i...

This is a misleading entry. On the surface it may appear informative, but actually it's an attempt by me to keep tracks. So, this month ...

Let’s have a break from writing! This spring sees the release of ‘My Sweet Canary,’ a documentary of the life of the singer Roza Eskinazi...

Fig 1. Silly boy... In  the last few issues of The Rialto , there has been a great deal of discussion about poetry written by the young....

On Sunday I gave a reading at Warwick Uni as part of Kaleidoscope, a conference on the use of colour in the arts. I had to think about how I...

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...