Gill Garrett - A Writer's Blog

   An interesting evening at the Melville Centre in Abergavenny yesterday. Ric Hool - who has done so much for poetry in the area, running ...

Twenty years ago my husband and I set out to walk the 220 miles of the Severn Way, the path that traces the length of the longest river in B...

The best laid plans.... Having plotted out a writing schedule for August, I managed to come back from the Eisteddfod with yet another bout o...

 I always have a yen to know "the story behind the story". Whilst I can enjoy an author or a poet's work as it stands, I find ...

 I have a new "toy" on my phone - the Merlin app from Cornell University that identifies birdsong. And I'm fast becoming addic...

 How depressing it was to read two articles this week - the first about a forthcoming State of the Nation in Adult Reading 2025 report and t...

 I was very glad not to be at home much of last week. Domestic chaos ensued after the breakdown of the freezer and the jamming of the electr...