Commonplace - Maria Taylor

  Attending the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival is habit forming. Last year I went to Aldeburgh for the first time and went again this ...

Today’s Back to the Future day. Marty McFly will be joining us all the way from 1985. How could I let this anniversary slip? The first time ...

Mr. Commonplace and I were sitting round the breakfast table debating the pros and cons of social networking. I had a moment of insight, I s...

August is Commonplace's birthday month. Looking back, Commonplace was born on August 5th 2010, but I've only just got round to updat...

A short blog entry on a couple of recent publications. At the beginning of the month, I had poems featured on both The Compass and the Pr...

Lifesaving Poems , Ed. Anthony Wilson, Bloodaxe Books, 2015 At the time of writing I am sitting in my front room with all the car ala...