My first full length poetry collection will be available from Flapjack Press on the 20th: http://www.flapjackpress.co.uk/page12.htm and we have a wonderful launch on the 22nd: https://www.facebook.com/events/162191573954947/ I've included an audio file preview with this post but you can find more here: https://soundcloud.com/amdppoet. The book is beautifully illustrated by the person who has il...

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I haven't posted here for some time I mostly use my blog these days which I will link to I wanted to include a link to an event on Monday, Innverse and workshop: https://www.facebook.com/events/237192663068681/ Innverse is a friendly read around that happens the last monday of every month (we will be taking august off however)  I wrote up some of my workshop pieces on my blog to give people an ...

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Dusk in Northumberland

I cannot throw away this faulty photograph

wonder if mother peeled off that oval sticker,

the one I remember:

Boots pronouncement of defects

on red eyes, on the ghosts of double exposures,

Now half forgotten

Framed by the stone walls scaling hills

I didn’t know that my great grandfather built or

the skill that made them stan...

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Hello Stirred relaunches at the lovely Sandbar on this Monday 1st November!

 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101746943228315

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 http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=149449901743488&index=1

at nexus cafe the second poetry picnic from 2-5pm

FREE!

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I volunteer in an Oxfam shop in Withington and this Sunday we are having a wonderful free event in the shop, details below:

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In my previous blog entry I mentioned that I am setting up a new magazine publishing and facilitating collaborations between (initially) Poets and Visual Artists. I am writing this post to clarify our submission guidlines:

If you are a Poet please send us: a biography (of less than 200 words) and a sample of work (usually around 3-6 poems).

It would also be useful if you could indicate what sor...

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Hello,

I am in the process of setting up a new magazine with John G Hall (previously Editor of Citizen 32) and Photographer Aki Hashimoto.

We are a new type of poetry magazine, we are to be composed of interdisciplinary collaborations between (initially) Poets and Visual Artists. We are proposing to be not only a space for the publication of poetry/art collaborations, but to be a faciliator (f...

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