Writing about things "heading in the right direction" must be tempting fate - so I'll take another tack! But despite the present writing project taking a very circuitous route, some minor surgery in the offing this week and one or two other unexpected diversions, there have been some interesting and positive features over the last month and my new poetry collection "The Photo I Didn't Take" is going to be launched on the 29th. It's going to be a joint launch with the poet Iris Anne Lewis (whose new collection, Amber, is also with Graffiti Books) at The Friends Meeting House in Cirencester - a beautiful setting for readings and afternoon tea.
And I'm very much enjoying facilitating a short series of sessions on Writing Our lives at Monmouth Library. Life writing is such a fascinating genre and people bring so much to these sessions - such varied life stories and so many hopes and plans for telling those stories in some very innovative ways. It was the Shakespearean actor, Sir Antony Sher, who said that "Nothing is more interesting than human lives" and I couldn't agree more with him. It's a real privilege to be party to them in a writing environment.
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