Category Archives: editing

Launch of 3rd Loose Muse anthology.

Posted on April 6, 2013 by

Good things go in threes and that is certainly true of the Loose Muse anthologies. I was part of the editing group and so nothing that went in should have been a surprise and yet the magic of performance rendered … Continue reading →

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Not attached!

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

It really is sod’s law. I finally pluck up the courage to declare the five commissioned poems (the miracle of being commissioned by Agnes Meadows to contribute to the first Loose Muse anthology still hasn’t truly sink in) as finished, … Continue reading →

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Dverse Poets – Meeting the Bar

Posted on November 11, 2011 by

What a great exercise Dverse has come up with this week! Thanks to Claudia and Zsa from the zumpoems site.  The task is to take a passage of prose and, following several steps, ‘translate’ it into poetry. As suggested I went … Continue reading →

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The Sea – a villanelle – the first I wrote

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

I was looking back at some of my earlier poems, and decided the time has come to rewrite, edit and improve. The was the first villanelle I ever wrote so I have a fondness for it, despite some clunky lines. … Continue reading →

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