The annual Free Verse Poetry Book Fair in London is one of my favourite events in the UK poetry calendar. I see many poets I know, I check in with editors wh...

Part of the interest in reading reviews is seeing how others measure the choices I made; at times it feels the reviewer has read the book at a rush, and at...

The Scallop by Maggi Hambling on Aldeburgh beach As some of you already know, following my university's restructuring last summer, this academic year my teac...

The last weekend of March 2019, my husband Trevor Lillistone and I went to Prague for my birthday weekend, as Prague is one of my favourite cities. As we've ...

The first sighting was on Sarah James' blog, with these good words: "The poems in Carrie Etter’s The Weather in Normal (Seren) are powerful compressions, bea...

This weekend I attended my first Flash Fiction Festival in Bristol. The festival was founded and organised by Jude Higgins with much assistance from fellow a...

I love the AWP Bookfair. I always learn of presses I hadn't heard of before, I see editors who've published my work, and I encounter new writers and their wo...

This weekend I was thrilled to learn of a new review of my pamphlet of flash fictions, Hometown, by Michael Loveday in Flash: The International Short-Short S...

Herewith a third and final round of passages! ...a green hillside in Gunhill as evening fell just as it was falling somewhere else as it was collecting in a ...