I'm very happy to be one of five Clydebuilt poets this year. This innovative poetry mentoring scheme is run by St Mungo's Mirrorball in conjunction with Glasgow City Council. We're working with port Gerry Loose in a series of workshops through the year. Working with other poets is contrast to my usual very solitary writing practice and I'm gaining from their feedback. Gerry's suggestions for poets to read is invaluable, and are taking me in new directions.
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.
