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June-Marion McCready
I was wowed by Marion and her poetry when we met on a week’s residency last year. She would go out into the dark in her ballet flats to find inspiration in the village churchyard. She would make a...
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Tricia Dearborn
I met Tricia via Facebook in 2012 when I was panicking about launching ‘Jimi.’ We found that we’d both been in The Best Australian Poetry (UQP) in 2008 and she’d written a fabulous poem where ‘Women...
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Alexis Rhone Fancher
“I want to write poems that people want to roll around in, get dirty, and come out the other end tarnished, spent, and a little less alone.” Alexis is another exciting poet I met via social media. It...
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Andy Jackson
Andy was one of the first people to give me the encouragement to keep writing when he judged one of my poems in a competition in 2010. Since then I’ve tracked his career as a poet and it’s clear that …...
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Andy Jackson
Andy was one of the first people to give me the encouragement to keep writing when he judged one of my poems in a competition in 2010. Since then I’ve tracked his career as a poet and it’s clear that …...
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Pascale Petit
Les Murray says, No other British poet I am aware of can match the powerful mythic imagination of Pascale Petit, and a comment that particularly resonates with me is from David Morley, Magma when he...
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Flamingo
After Maya Angelou It’s the way she’s bent into a bird Right knee tucked into shoulder She’s making a sculpture as if in a ballet class for a painter Her toes, painted red make a feathery tail It’s the...
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Art of Dying
They do death good Walk among phantoms with a spring in the step Take kids in royal prams for a picnic Light candles for night strolls when the snow falls in duck down Etch a rock, snip a hedge...
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Anne M Carson
Whenever I see Anne’s name in a poetry journal I know I am in for a treat. Her poetry is elegant and edible, sparse and thoughtful. I always enjoy the human perspective in her observations of the...
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Contact
Please contact me on bokoboko52@gmail.com I am available for mentoring and the following workshops at all levels; Poetry Short Fiction/Flash fiction Creative Non-Fiction Memoir Participants have said;...
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Terry Quinn
In June 2013,Terry and I met for the first time at Digbeth Bus Station, Birmingham, as joint winners of the Geoff Stevens Poetry Prize (Indigo Dreams) and on the eve of launching our big collections....
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November 3 Halloween came and went. Hooray. On the Eve of the day when ‘the race that stops a nation is run’, The Melbourne Cup, I am preparing to place a bet and post a book review of Robert …...
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Alexis Rhone Fancher
“I want to write poems that people want to roll around in, get dirty, and come out the other end tarnished, spent, and a little less alone.” Alexis is another exciting poet I met via social media. It...
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Review What Days are For by Robert Dessaix
I’d like to thank Random House for inviting me to review Robert Dessaix’s latest memoir. I came face to face with Robert Dessaix in the early nineties when he came to speak to us about ‘Night Letters.’...
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It’s hard to pin down someone with the name Ivy. Just when I thought I’d found her, first in Oz, then in Wales of all places, she pops up in New Zealand where she’s taken root for now. I’m always a …...
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When Temporal Lobes
ignite like Christmas lights down High Street in the middle of her grand mal she is sitting upright in a bentwood chair /resin replica/ She can neither see nor hear Not a sound … Continue...
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