Carol Ann Duffy and the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University have brought together poets from around the world to write new poems about the recent days past and the weeks ahead. The poets were invited to write directly about the Coronavirus pandemic or about the personal situation they find themselves in right now. … Continue reading ‘Cycle Ride’ featured on WRITE where we are NOW site
Wrote a Post for Proletarian Poetry about Knife Crime and my Poem ‘Corona/Cuts’
A MAP TOWARDS FLUENCY BY LISA KELLY WITH CROWN OF SONNETS ‘CORONA/CUTS’ (AFTER JOHN DONNE). Today we have a special treat, as Lisa Kelly has kindly given us a crown of sonnets ‘Corona/Cuts’ (after John Donne). Here she writes about the sequence and the persistent problem of knife crime. It comes from Lisa’s collection A Map Towards Fluency (published by Carcanet). It … Continue reading Wrote a Post for Proletarian Poetry about Knife Crime and my Poem ‘Corona/Cuts’
WRITE where we are NOW, a living record of the pandemic curated by Manchester Writing School
Carol Ann Duffy's WRITE Where We Are Now project is featuring new poems and new perspectives about the pandemic as we live through this challenging time. It is fantastic to have this record unfold day by day and I am very happy to have a poem posted that I wrote in early April when there … Continue reading WRITE where we are NOW, a living record of the pandemic curated by Manchester Writing School
We are in Lockdown but Collaborations Continue with AllSaintsSessions
Last Thursday we were supposed to be performing live at All Saints' Church, Edmonton. I had been collaborating with poet Cheryl Moskowitz and electronic composer Alastair Gavin and cellist Kate Shortt and we were looking forward to the wonderful atmosphere of the beautiful church where I have been lucky enough to have been in the … Continue reading We are in Lockdown but Collaborations Continue with AllSaintsSessions
Lisa Kelly 