Poetry Education Research

I am a poet and writing tutor, and a lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter. I can be contacted at [email protected], through my Facebook pages or LinkedIn. My books of poetry are How Far From Here is Home? (Stride, 1996), Nowhere Better Than This (Worple Press, 2002) and Full Stretch: Poems 1996-2006 (Worple Press, 2006). Riddance is now available from Worple Press at http://www.worplepress.com/riddance/ Email [email protected] for more details. Love for Now, a memoir of my experience of cancer, is out now from Impress Books. My research is in the field of poetry in education. I am co-convener of the ESRC Seminar Series Poetry Matters. Making Poetry Matter, co-edited with Sue Dymoke and Andrew Lambirth and based on the Poetry Matters Seminar Series, is out now with Bloomsbury.

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Plymbridge launch reading

I am delighted to announce the publication of Plymbridge, a new pamphlet of poems, with Worple Press. Please celebrate with me at my launch reading at St Mark’s Church, Exeter, on 2 July, 6pm. Please circulate this among your networks!

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The Write Team: Creative Writers in Schools

  The Bath Festivals‘ Write Team was a creative writing project designed to develop pupil confidence and engagement in their learning. The project, funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation brought together an arts organisation, local authority and schools to share experience and skills, in the support of those pupils who ‘play truant in the mind’. (Collins. J (1998) Playing Truant in the Mind: the…

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On Jaan Kaplinski and liminality

Lifesaving Lines: A discussion of the teaching of classical languages, by Jaan Kaplinski

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Announcing the publication of Plymbridge, my new pamhlet of poems, with Worple Press

Plymbridge: a new pamphlet of poems

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In celebration of 40 years of Poems on the Underground

Poems on the Underground is 40!

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The fourth and final Gaza Advent poem is Mihrab, by 18-year-old poet Samar Al Guhssain from Gaza, translated from the Arabic by Batool Abu Akleen.

Gaza Advent 4: Mihrab, by Samar Al Guhssain

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The third poem in our Gaza Advent series of poems: How I cook my grief, by Batool Abu Akleen

Gaza Advent 3: This is how I cook my grief by Batool Abu Akleen

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Palestine Still Lives, a poem by Sarah al Bohassi, a 13-year-old poet from Gaza writing in English.

Gaza Advent 2: Palestine Still Lives, by Sarah al Bohassi

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On the resistance of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour.

Gaza Advent 1: Detaining a poem, by Dareen Tatour

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Announcing a new series of posts for Advent, celebrating leading poets from Gaza

Gaza Advent - a new series of blog posts starting tomorrow

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On listening to Margaret Atwood on the radio speaking about never expecting to be successful.

This was Canada

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When a poet that is new to you speaks directly into your life.

Lifesaving Lines: You are not alone, by Thomas A. Clark

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When you have put off the moment of writing - and finally it happens.

The jump

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What it's like to be writing, when you're not writing.

This is writing!

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I blame the dead

We have been to a thing. Breaking with this blog’s tradition of oblique references to low-level gossip and self-recrimination at various things over the years, I disclose we were in attendance at the memorial of our friend the literature festival director and educator Kay Dunbar. With her husband Stephen Bristow, Kay co-owned and ran the Ways With Words literature festival, and associated events…

I blame the dead

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On experiencing silence after writing

There was a door

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A step from me

In August last year I wrote about Tom Paulin’s poem of hurt and slow healing ‘A Lyric Afterwards’. It wasn’t the first time I have talked about it here – but I did think it would be my last. But no. There has been birdsong. And last week, after work, like someone asking us to enact our back-to-normal lives for a scene towards the close of a film, we walked ‘by the river’ and you were, in those…

A step from me