by PixelT | Nov 22, 2022 | Lakeland Book of the Year, This Place I know
Wonderful news! I hear from the offices of Cumbria Tourism that THIS PLACE I KNOW is on the shortlist for The Lakeland Book of the Year award. I am thrilled to bits. It is a tribute to the talented poets of the county and my fellow editors, Kim and Kerry, that we were...
by PixelT | Nov 22, 2022 | Book Launch, Poetry, This Place I know
The events to launch THIS PLACE I KNOW have been a whole lot of fun and utterly inspiring. Any doubts I might have had as to whether this anthology truly represented the spirit of 21st Century Cumbrian poetry evaporated as, at every event from Maryport to Kendal,...
by PixelT | Nov 22, 2022 | Book Launch, Poetry, This Place I know
I am thrilled to announce that THIS PLACE I KNOW, A new anthology of Cumbrian Poetry, was published on October 1st. Exciting times! Kerry Darbishire, Kim Moore and I have spent a busy year gathering together the very best contemporary poetry by writers from every...
by PixelT | Nov 22, 2022 | Poetry
It was another wonderful night of poetry in Ulverston on 17th February at A Poem and Pint. The initial regret that the guest poet, Joanne Limburg, had flu and had had to cancel was soon forgotten as the committee stepped up to the microphone. Poems ranged from Mark...
by PixelT | Nov 22, 2022 | New project, Poetry
The scene outside may be a little bleak but it has been a very cheery start to the 2018 as I start to make contact again with poets I knew during my bookselling days in Ulverston. There was a lot of literary activity in the town at the time with South Cumbria...
