Radio silence for a few weeks as I've been away / unwell / inundated! But I'm home again now with things more on an even keel and trying to work through what should have been done but hasn't been yet. It does seem a rather strange early autumn though; usually by now we're settling into the September routine - groups meeting up again, classes restarting etc. - but this year it's just more of the same, with Zoom featuring large in most things we do, as it did all over the summer. How fortunate we are though that technology does afford us the opportunity to stay connected when the virus conspires against us.
One thing that has got done (at last!) is the final preparation of my poetry collection which should make it to the printers this week. It will be coming out shortly with Graffiti Books. On Friday my Catchword colleague Derek Healey (poetry editor with Graffiti magazine) will be launching his collection "Home"; I'm delighted to have been invited to read with him and Rona Laycock at the virtual launch. "Home" should have had its debut at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival in April but was a casualty of the lockdown, along with all the other events of the festival. Anna Saunders, the Festival Director, has been very successful however in arranging a year long programme of on-line readings, launches and open mics that has attracted a world-wide audience. Another silver lining.
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