Joanne Durham lives on the Atlantic coast of the US, with the ocean as her backyard and muse. She loved, drafted, and taught poetry all her life, but only began seriously writing in 2018, and has enjoyed seeing her poems published in different parts of the world, including Dodging the Rain (Ireland), Love in the … Continue reading To Drink from a Wider Bowl
Love’s Floreloquence by Wendy Ann Webb is published by Inherit the Earth Publications and available now from Amazon. The poems were written over many years, some lighthearted, others very serious issues, to provide poems of love that lasts a lifetime. There’s something for all ages and stages of love and the accompanying heartache of real … Continue reading Love’s Floreloquence
Along with their songwriting workshops, members of the Pathhead Choir also had the chance to take part in two creative writing workshops led by Sophie Bancroft. Here are some of the results. A shore full of promise She walks slowly, feet shuffling along the shoreline dotted with colourful little jewels. The waves shush onto the … Continue reading Treasures
I have danced for many years – from being told when I was at university that I should be a dancer, to actually finding Dance when I was twenty-eight years old, and now aged seventy finding a new way to dance with arthritis. In the early years I took as many classes as I could, … Continue reading “My self-confidence comes from movement” – a life in dance
Jill Korn writes: I graduated in 2019 with a Master’s in Creative Writing. I wanted my retirement to be creative. With five audio plays under my belt, I applied for Creative Scotland funding to produce three more celebrating Ayrshire where I have lived for forty years. An Ayrshire Trilogy is now complete. High Spirits, The … Continue reading An Ayrshire Trilogy
As part of Autumn Voices’ Third Age Plus Pioneers project, singer songwriter Chiara Berardelli and multi disciplinary cabaret artist Miss Annabel Sings worked together on a very special project with Alf Barnett, a 93 year-old man (and Annabel’s dad) living in Wembley, whose long held dream was to write songs and perform. Listen to Alf’s songs, ‘Roses’ and ‘Memories’. … Continue reading Two new songs by Alf Barnett
Ken Cockburn, Projects Coordinator at Autumn Voices, recommends: Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück (Carcanet, 2021) The US poet Louise Glück (b.1943) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020. Winter Recipes from the Collective is her first book since that award. It’s a slim volume, written in deceptively simple language, conversational … Continue reading Ken’s Jolabokablog
Ken Cockburn is a poet, translator, editor and writing tutor based in Edinburgh. After several years at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, he has freelanced since 2004, working in schools, colleges, care and community settings, and collaborating with visual artists on book, exhibition and public art projects. He runs Edinburgh Poetry Tours – guided … Continue reading N is for noticing
