Commonplace - Maria Taylor

Hi again, I'm challenging my one post a month target this April. I'm often a diarist when it comes to blogging, but I t...

March Acquisitions... The title of this blog post owes a debt to Auden’s well known line, ‘poetry makes nothing happen’ because...

I’m trying to keep up with my personal target of at least one post per month, although February’s been quiet. I’ve mainly been getting ...

  Is it to late to say happy new year? Well, happy new year anyway.It's almost Chinese New Year, which Google tells me is the Year of ...

I have a cold today and am at home feeling lousy. I probably shouldn't be blogging, but I felt it had been a long while since the last p...

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