The post delivered a pamphlet today for me to review for Sphinx. This magazine and website all about poetry pamphlets has gone from strength to strength. I don’t know how Helena Nelson finds the time to produce this as well as run HappenStance press, but I’m very glad she does. Reading through the pamphlet this morning and jotting down first impressions, I realised how valuable this process of reading and responding to other people’s writing is. Writing poetry can sometimes feel such a solitary undertaking and yet there is so much to learn from and enjoy in reading other people’s poems. Feeling that you are part of a larger community of people who enjoy poems is valuable in itself. Maybe it’s time I got writing again… Friday, July 11, 2008
The post delivered a pamphlet today for me to review for Sphinx. This magazine and website all about poetry pamphlets has gone from strength to strength. I don’t know how Helena Nelson finds the time to produce this as well as run HappenStance press, but I’m very glad she does. Reading through the pamphlet this morning and jotting down first impressions, I realised how valuable this process of reading and responding to other people’s writing is. Writing poetry can sometimes feel such a solitary undertaking and yet there is so much to learn from and enjoy in reading other people’s poems. Feeling that you are part of a larger community of people who enjoy poems is valuable in itself. Maybe it’s time I got writing again… About Me
- Name: Liz Bassett
- Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Liz Bassett writes poems about skies and elephants and the occasional ship. In her poems people fall asleep under their duvet and wake up under lines of migrating geese, and in love. Her poems have been placed in the Bridport competition, short listed for the Plough Prize, and been published by The Red Wheelbarrow, Agenda Broadsheet, White Leaf Review, The Guardian Poetry Workshop, and in the anthologies My Mother Threw Knives (Second Light Publications), Solitaire (Templar Poetry)and New Poets from Britain and America (White Leaf Press). She is a reviewer for Sphinx (HappenStance Press). Her pamphlet 'How to Wire a Life for Love' is available from Knucker Press.
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