Robert Peake, an American poet living in Britain, shares his thoughts on craft and innovation
Andrew O’Hagan prepares to complete a journey around the British Isles begun with Seamus Heaney, and reflects on his lifelong immersion in poetry, and celebrates poets as risk-takers and miracle-workers.
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/06/andrew-ohagan-love-poetry-seamus-heaney
Emma Lee offers a step by step guide and checklist
Maitreyabandhu says spiritual life is primarily concerned with overcoming self-centredness, with committing
ourselves to values such as empathy and insight. Poetry can be a spiritual practice, a way of life.
www.magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-51/articles/13-ways-of-making-poetry-a-spiritual-practice
Ian Gregson, Professor of Creative Writing at Bangor University wonders if universities are doing poetry
books a disservice.
www.theconversation.com/poetry-is-well-and-truly-in-the-margins-will-it-ever-get-out
Helena Nelson at Happenstance Press puts forward here 10 reasons to submit to magazines.
www.happenstancepress.org/index.php/blog/entry/ten-reasons-for-sending-your-poems-to-magazines
What follows is the Jo Bell Method; the method of an immensely, award-winningly disorganised poet who
nonetheless has managed to win awards. Her vast and lofty experience teaches her that the key part of
winning any prize or getting into a journal is this: SEND THE BUGGERS OFF.
www.belljarblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/submitting-to-journals-the-jo-bell-method
How a movement has been misconstrued as a genre
(Chris Gilpin, Canadian Review of Literature and Performance)
www.litlive.ca/story/602
The blog of Happenstance Magazine
www.happenstancepress.org/index.php/blog
2014 has offered further proof, if any were still needed, that poetry blogs are here to stay amid the maelstrom of social media.
www.roguestrands.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/the-best-uk-poetry-blogs-of-2014.html
After a couple of students used a sonnet to take a swipe at Tesco, the Guardian looks back at the often strained relationship
between poets and superstores.
www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/30/grocery-rhymes-poetry-supermarkets-tesco-sonnet-students
