Poems & books & things
My long-time friend and poetry collaborator Josephine Corcoran, editor of the brilliant adult poetry webzine And Other Poems recently interviewed me for her blog - you can find the interview over at josephinecorcoran.org. Thanks heaps to Josephine. Here's a bit more about her brilliant writing. Josephine Corcoran lives in Trowbridge. She has published two poetry collections, What Are …
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It's a really lovely feeling when a reader or reviewer spots something in your writing, something you realise you felt in your heart all along but didn't consciously know was there until they pointed it out! Big thanks, then, to Roger Stevens and the folks at Poetry Zone for their recent review of Saturdays at …
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I'm thrilled to introduce you to Saturdays at the Imaginarium, my first collection of poems written for children, published October 2020. The book is illustrated by Jude Wisdom and published by the lovely folks at Troika. Want one? (Oh go on...). Why not pop into your local bookshop or order a copy online now from bookshop.org. Buying …
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National Poetry Day is on 1st October 2020 and this year's theme is 'See It Like A Poet'. So I had a go at making a short animated film of one of my poems, 'When I was Cross-Eyed'. The poem's from my book Saturdays at the Imaginarium, and it's inspired by the idea that “We …
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There's a poem in Saturdays at the Imaginarium called 'M-M-Murray’s M-M-Mountains'. It's about someone called Murray (which you probably guessed) who's afraid of heights. The trouble is, Murray's a mountain climber. So he spends quite a lot of time feeling anxious. Worrying. Fretting. Stressing out. Poor Murray. I'll read you the poem in a short …
Have you ever wondered what goes into making a book? Snap - I wondered too. Then along came my first book, Saturdays at the Imaginarium - and I found out! Boy, was there a whole heap of stuff to learn. Plenty of hard work was involved over quite a long period of time, and also plenty of …
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Have you ever heard it said that we're all made of stars? There's a theory in science that says that everyone and everything on Earth contains tiny star particles: that all the atoms and elements in our bodies and our world were originally created in stars that existed more than 4 billion years ago. Far out, …
Have you ever heard the expression, It's raining cats and dogs? Do you remember the movie, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs? One day, both of those things got me thinking, and then that thinking led to writing a poem. The poem is called 'And Now for the Weather in Wonderland' and you can find it in …
There's a poem in the Imaginarium called 'The Poetry Guerrilla'. You can listen to me reading it here: You can also read the poem on the National Poetry Day website at nationalpoetryday.co.uk/poem/the-poetry-guerrilla At this point it's important not to confuse a poetry guerrilla with a poetry gorilla. So what exactly are we talking about here? Guerrilla poetry …
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There’s a poem in Saturdays at the Imaginarium called ‘The Nameless’ where I write about things with no name. Here it is. A few things to ponder How can we write or speak about things if they have no name? Is it possible? Have you ever seen or felt something that you couldn’t quite find the …
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Shauna Darling Robertson 