My last night with The Poetry Lounge
Last night was my last Poetry Lounge. I’ve been putting it together for seven years, at first with the help of dear friend Deborah Alma, the Emergency Poet. But now I live in Shrewsbury, not Ludlow, and it’s time to put my efforts into the Shrewsbury Poetry scene, and time for the Poetry Lounge to step into a new era with other people at the … Continue reading My last night with The Poetry Lounge
Making poems with a veteran: Creative Conversations project
I’ve been making poems with a veteran soldier of 87 – how he was bombed in the Blitz, and his soldiering in Malaya in the 1950s. ‘When I joined up, I was right./ I was right, even when I wasn’t.’ Continue reading Making poems with a veteran: Creative Conversations project
