Does your poetry deserve an 8-week course in a small non-judgemental group where you'll be offered lots of creative prompts? If so, read on... Hope to see you there. 🌿
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/fami...
Poetry, poetry, poetry - please send it my way. I'd love to fill a spot in a June issue of the Morning Star with some original words that say something about the world we're creating. 🌿
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I finished it today which feels like an achievement as its 600 pages long!
Let me know what you think when you're finished. Hope you have a good day.
On Thursday, I'll be facilitating a workshop for GPs called 'Poetry and Healing'. I love that the medical profession sees the need for this sort of work, especially at a time when healing seems to be in short supply.
Does poetry only matter when it gets out of it's head and enters its heart?
Fantastic, Alison! I actually got it from 'The Poisonwood Bible', which I'm reading thirty years after everyone else!
The quote appears in quotes in the book so I wondered if Adah got it from another source. Could you send me the Google link as I can't find it? Also, your thoughts on the novel?
Please help me find out where this quote is from:
'My life: what I stole from history, and how I live with it.'
Any thoughts?
Hi Gregory, hope all's well. I've just edited an anthology of Irish/based poets writing about community and would love to see if of interest for your podcast. Here's more info about my work:
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-...
indigodreamspublishing.com/jenny-mitche...
Poems on a Monday morning - please send me a contemporary poem you've read recently that renews your faith in the form...
Does your poetry deserve more space & time? Check out this 8-week online course, max 12 participants so everyone receives detailed, non-judgemental feedback. Loads of creative prompts & time to write. Hope to see you there.
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/fami...
Can anyone name one Rastafarian, male or female, in modern mainstream culture since the death of Benjamin Zephaniah?
Why does it matter?
Because if people are made invisible in the wider world how can they be accepted within communities?
poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/the-da...
I devour biographies as real lives offer great stories for fiction. This book about the Redgrave family turns out to be about the career of Tony Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave's 1st husband. I wrote to the publisher who, to my surprised, has offered a free book by way of apology. It pays to complain.
Really glad I'm not alone in my thinking. Sending best wishes for the day. 😊
This, about a million times.
Why is there an obsession with poets under the age of 30?
Is it significant that so many of the current (so-called) world leaders were born in the 40s and 50s?
Are we being tricked into thinking young people have power because of their prizes when they're really being patronised and controlled?
If your poetry needs a spring in its step sign up for the 8-week course 'Family as Metaphor', facilitated by me with the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
It's online, max 12 participants: Everyone gets a chance to be heard. Creative prompts & time to write.
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/fami...
I think all Poetry workshops should be FREE because they do so much to help us heal, whether we know it or not.
I also understand that organisations need to cover their costs, as do facilitators.
Are there some times when paying for poetry is justified, especially because it does us so much good?
Family as Metaphor - an 8-week online poetry workshop where we look at the stories we were never meant to tell. Can we dare to imagine what made our families the mysteries they sometimes appear to be? Join me to find out. More details below:
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/fami...
Delighted to be one of the many writers performing at the wonderful @wcorklitfest.bsky.social this July.
I'll be performing and also facilitating a workshop on Poetry and Community - both on July 16th. Hope to see you there.
Check out the packed programme below:
westcorkmusic.ie/literary-fes...
Poetry & Family - What better Easter present than an 8-week online poetry course with me & the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social?
They'll be challenging creative prompts in a supportive, non-judgemental atmosphere. Link below with info. Hope to see you there.
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/fami...
You can find out more and book Jenny's 8-week online poetry course here: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/fami...
Any art lovers out there?
Check out my review of the Hurvin Anderson retrospective at Tate Britain. Hope it encourages you to take in the show...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fore...
I've been told my review of the Hurvin Anderson retrospective at Tate Britain will raise hackles. Not sure why. Judge for yourself and definitely go to see the show - Highly recommended.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fore...
Stunned my review of the Hurvin Anderson retrospective at Tate Britain will be the lead in the Morning Star on Saturday. Will post this new string to my bow here soon.🌿
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
As a poetry co-editor at the Morning Star I'm honoured to help amplify amazing work like 'The Truth' by Olaore Durodola-Oloto. If you only read one poem today...🌿
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/truth
Delighted to be facilitating an eight-week poetry workshop called 'Family as Metaphor' with @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
starting in May.
Hope it sounds of interest. Watch this space for details... 🌿
I met Maya Angelou when I was a young impressionable woman and still can't listen to her voice when I hear it on TV. How interesting what we say, and apparently stand for, doesn't always match up with how we behave.
That's fantastic feedback for the poet. I'll pass it onto them. If you write poems or know anyone who does, why not suggest they submit work to The Morning Star as well?
The email address is: thursdaypoems@gmail.com
Best wishes
Your wonderful support and feedback is much appreciated, Patricia, as always. Hope you have a lovely day. 🌿
"I know that as a poet I’m meant to be ‘selling’ myself. As I was told by a young poet who is very successful, publishing is an industry. But I don’t work for the industry; I work for the community"
