Gill Garrett - A Writer's Blog

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...

Looking back recently through the poems that I've written over the last couple of years, I was struck by how many have a local history t...

A real "blast from the past" yesterday, walking around the Blaise Castle estate in Bristol with our dog. When we lived in the area...

Yesterday evening Buzzwords got off to a good start for 2016 with a workshop and reading by Josephine Corcoran. I had met Josephine before a...

Dreary, damp weather here to welcome the New Year but there's so much to look forward to in 2016 it's difficult to feel down with it...

Perhaps my favourite part of Christmas is Christmas Eve - there is something quite special about the preparations, something quite magical a...

Well, my Christmas cactus, which is always ablaze with blooms by now, is sporting one solitary flower; I don't think it appreciated the ...