Here’s a link to something else I’m involved with – a local project here in Portsmouth to help with Seagrass restoration in the Solent – which is critical for marine life, and also excellent from a wider ecological perspective – Seagrass is significant for carbon capture I’m judging the poetry competition, and you can see a link here 6 days left also for the crowd funding element https://pensoftheearth.co.uk
Life gets in the way, and I have seriously neglected this blog. Not sure how / if I will carry on when it is up for renewal – something like this needs to be done properly or not at all (especially when I am paying for it!) Anyway, in the meantime, here is one of my more recent poetry pages in the Pompey programme
Catching up on the Pompey Programme front, at least those involving my poems. Here’s one from the match on Saturday 7th October It was written as a response to a request for two words to describe what people who worked at the club thought about Portsmouth FC, and what it meant to them. An interesting exercise. Not sure the poem is one of my best, but I think it captures the sentiment. The body copy…
…still neglecting this blog, work has been really challenging (to put it mildly), but I am still writing and getting the occasional bit of success. Anyway, here’s another Pompey Programme page.
A quick mention for the deadline for Winchester Poetry Festival’s poetry competition – July 31st One of the UK’s premier competitions, and with a prize for Hampshire poets. Link below. https://www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/prize
My day job is proving very busy at the moment, so I’m just going to share a few competition post updates this week: Here’s one via Vole Books – ends on the 1st August
Delighted to have a poem in the latest edition of Poetry & All That Jazz, run by Barry Smith and Chichester Poetry. I haven’t posted much here recently – I have been a bit under the cosh with work and Portsmouth FC writer in residence stuff (more of that later), but anyway, hope you like the poem
On the NHS’ 75th birthday, rather than going into a long rant – what’s the point? – we all know what the Tories have done to the country in the name of austerity over the last 13 years, and how this has impacted on all our public services, and not just the NHS, I thought I’d re-share this poem I wrote to be displayed in one of the Covid wards at QA Hospital. I hope…
A quick mention for the Vent Literary Festival on the Isle of Wight. It runs between the 22nd and 25th of July, and this is the second year this festival in Ventnor has run. Details here: https://vfringe.co.uk/events/vent-spoken-and-written-word-2023/?fbclid=IwAR28HlpChMgdvzrxVFcNXhs46jzJ0HmHx5AMEG22-O8TVzNrZTGkBN4-ILc
A quick mention of an event happening in Portsmouth on June 24th. As with Sunday’s post, this information is lifted from a Facebook post. Looks like an excellent event, and for an important cause. Just helping to spread the word. This Iconic location within the heart of the city will be hosting a vibrant event of rappers, poets, musicians and much more exciting entertainment. 432-Nomads and Portsmouth City of Sanctuary will be taking you on…