It has been a busy week or so. I have heard about the plans for my poem on the Polesworth Poetry Trail; I'm not sure how much Mal Dewhirst, the organiser, will allow me to say, but if we can get the permission of the highways agency then the display will be awesome.
Mal is also the organiser of the poetry side of Nuneaton festival (2 July), where he will be poet in residence and wandering bard. I don't have the contact details in full yet, but you should be able to tweet him on the day with requests and comments for his poem of the event. One of my own poems may well be featured at the event and I will be reading at one or many of the four venues. I'll post a link in my next update.
Tomorrow I'm also reading at Erdington Library, the subject is memoirs (not memories, but books of memories) and I'm on in the second half, so I have time to decide what to read based on the other poets' offerings.
I'm also doing a lot of thinking about poetry at present, inspired by the brilliant Matthew Welton who is taking a group through some fairly advanced stuff on poetry. It may be that I have it all wrong (my words, certainly not Matt's) and that I need to re-think my thinking. We'll see.
Finally, I'm preparing for the next Spoken Worlds event. People travel from across the Midlands to be at the event, but the local paper, the Burton Mail, can't even be arsed to print the interview they did with me and Bohdan of Apples and Snakes still hasn't found his way to us. Still, we have plenty of great quality readers, and it's all open mic. So NAAAAH to em all.
