I thought I’d start sharing some of my regular poetry page updates in a slightly different way. When I add poems, I have just been putting them straight on the poems page. Which is fine when they have been shared here before. Especially those that have appeared more than once! But from now on, I’ll add other poems to posts as well. Maybe with some description / commentary, to go with them. Today’s poem, which…
Back from a few days holiday – my first break since starting a new job in October. I needed it. Whilst the new role is great (it’s amazing how feeling valued at work improves both your productivity and mental well-being!) I was getting tired, and starting to struggle a little. I’m currently recruiting in the US, UK, Netherlands, Germany and Singapore, with candidates for some of these roles coming from a range of locations around…
Just the one new poem this week on my poems page. I say new – it first appeared in South Magazine back in 2020, and then on the Chichester Poetry Website in March last year. I’ll try to keep adding a poem or two on a weekly basis
I’ve hardly submitted anything anywhere this year. Work pressures, lack of belief in my own writing, time spent on other activities. The usual excuses. But as I start to write again, I am starting to look out for new opportunities to submit poems. I follow a good few magazines on Twitter, so am watching out for magazine open submission windows. There are also a few listing sites I use. But it can be a bit…
One poem added to my poems page – I wrote it for a friend who chose to end his own life, and read at his funeral on a bright, sunny November day last year. There’s a more detailed post about James, and the poem earlier in my blog.
I had a good poetry week. Well the end of it was good. I couldn’t make a couple of online events due to work commitments – I am now recruiting in the US as well as The Netherlands, Germany and UK – luckily the only role I was working on in Australia has been put on hold, and my Singapore assignments have been completed, so it’s not quite as challenging from the perspective of time…
Three poems added to my page of published poems. All 3 poems previously appeared on the Acropolis Journal website, (issues 1 & 2), last year. Two are from the sequence of poems I wrote with the general theme of running around Portsea Island whilst training for marathons. They are among the darkest poems I have written, which is why I won’t share them in a post. You’ll have to go looking for them – they…
That time of year again. A blackbird sings from a vantage point in a back garden somewhere along the street. And I feel a little more alive. Someone has lit a barbecue. And I don’t mind. The sun is shining. I used to view my life with a sense of disappointment. Compare myself to others who had made a better fist of it. Who had bigger houses, better cars, more glamorous lives, more exotic holidays.…