This Friday is the launch of the first of Laudanum’s books, featuring the work of my fellow poet, Stuart Mckenzie. It also includes poems by Joey Connolly and Philip Terry. I pre-ordered the book and have had it for several weeks. I was so pleased to see Stuart’s work in print, having becoming familiar with…
Author: Caroline Davies
Friday poetry and Happy Weekend
This weekend’s reading is going to be Andrea Holland’s Broadcasting. The first print run had sold out when I first came across it in 2013 but happily it has been reprinted. This is very much a book to my taste as the poems are about the five Breckland villages in East Anglia which were requistioned…
A life in libraries
I wrote this in the library of the university where I worked for a decade and a half. These days as I concentrate on writing I’m using the library space as a form of mini-retreat. I know there are writers who can take themselves off to a nearby café or coffee shop but I get…
Friday poetry and Happy Weekend
For this Friday and the weekend’s poetry reading I’ve gone back to Tamar Yoseloff’s A Formula for Night, which contains her body of work from twenty years and four collections plus new poems. Hitherto I’ve not made the time to read all the poems so I am looking forward to doing that and to finding…
Thanks for the Postcards received for the August Poetry Postcard fest 2016
August Poetry Postcard Fest 2016 cards received And here are the postcards which have made their way across the Atlantic… all 27 of them. I think there are more en route for those who have carried the fest on into September. In the mean time my thanks to Linda Malnack, Mary Beth Frezon, Rachel Barber,…
August Poetry Postcard fest 2016
The poetry postcards from fellow poets continued to arrive until recently. So now it’s time to look back on August and a month of writing and receiving poetry postcards. Collage cards made by Caroline Davies I was far better prepared this year with more than enough cards to allow me to write 31 poems to…
Friday poetry and Happy Weekend
I always make time for poetry on Fridays, preferably with a mug of tea. This week’s reading material is Jane McLauglin’s prize winning first collection, Lockdown, which is being published by Cinnamon Press this weekend. I am really enjoying Jane’s use of imagery and the way her poems capture moments like snapshots. As I’m not…
Lallie and Victor – a mother’s locket
I have written previously about my great uncle, Robert Victor Davies but not about his older sister, Mary Eleanor who was known to the family as Lallie. During the summer I was going through a box of miscellaneous family photographs with my brother when we came across a locket. On one side it had a…
August Poetry Postcard Fest 2016 – ten years of postcards
It’s time to register for the annual jamboree of poetry postcards organised by Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers. The countdown clock shows there’s only a few days to go before registrations close. Once you’ve signed up you’ll receive a list of the other 31 members of your group and it will be time to start…
Have you forgotten yet? Afermath by Siegfried Sassoon
For me the most poignant part of the Somme Commemoration from Thiepval was Charles Dance, standing under the great arch and reading Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon. Aftermath Have you forgotten yet?… For the world’s events have rumbled on since those gagged days, Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city…