Category: Poet in Residence

Poet in Residence

Reader In Residence = Nose In A Book?

I’m very excited to be the new Reader In Residence at the recently opened Southwater Library in Telford.  I start in just 10 days time, when I go to meet the Library staff and Roz Goddard of West Midlands Readers’ Network in the beautiful new library and begin building ideas and plans to get more people reading books, talking books, recommending books, swapping books, writing about books. … Continue reading Reader In Residence = Nose In A Book?

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Poet in Residence

‘Roman hens of Dorking/ those blue hills/ and Charlie’

Originally posted on Poet on the Farm :
Today over 40 poets and lovely attentive audience members turned up on a hot, humid afternoon to take part in ‘Poems for the Farm’.  It was the culmination of my three month residency at Acton Scott Historic Working Farm – and it was great!  Some 20 poets came along to read, and they generously read  work too from… Continue reading ‘Roman hens of Dorking/ those blue hills/ and Charlie’

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