Wall to wall poetry at the moment. Last Monday I ran a workshop on "Writing Our Lives" in aid of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. I usually do this session in relation to prose writing and with quite varied groups but this one was attended by five highly practiced poets - it had seemed a somewhat daunting prospect but proved an interesting and productive afternoon. Last Thursday I was recording some of my Gloucestershire poems for Corinium Radio ( a rather chaotic morning - a lift was being installed next to the recording studio so readings had to be judiciously timed!). Yesterday we had a really good session at our monthly Picaresque meeting, looking at poetry publications and discussing our experiences of submitting work - the occasional successes and the more frequent failures! Despite some of the kind words of the editors - "Do send us more of your work in the future", "We enjoyed your poems but they did not quite fit with our style" - somehow rejection always feels like failure.
This Friday evening (January 29th) will see the first New Bohemians gathering of the year, a workshop on poetic inspiration run by Jennie Farley. It promises to be a good evening - do join us if you're free (7.30pm at deepspace artworks in Charlton Kings). The following morning sees a workshop on prose poetry with Anna Saunders at the wonderful Cheltenham Anthology bookshop. By Sunday I think I shall be just about workshopped out!
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