Gill Garrett - A Writer's Blog

I think I've written before about how my father, an ardent Welshman, would take it as a personal affront if daffodils didn't flower ...

My friend and Picaresque colleague Judith van Dijkhuizen was the winner of the poetry section of the Gloucestershire Writers Network competi...

Lately I've been working on a series of poems about Celtic myths and legends, especially those originating in Wales. On Friday I was del...

Since childhood I have been fascinated by museums, large ones, small ones, famous ones, struggling local ones. They have always seemed to me...

Place makes such a difference to our feelings, our energy, our creativity. Last Friday evening's New Bohemians workshop at deepspace (I ...

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...