Poles Apart Poetry

There's been a long radio silence on this blog from the two poles of Leicester and Cardiff that the Polar Poets hail from. A posting is long overdue. And far from our venture having perished in the white-out, we have been incredibly busy in our separate corners. Writing new works. Performing. Telling stories.

So you can see above several events we've booked booked into diaries for later this year. Meanwhile, this very week Susan has launched a new collection inspired by notions of the North and illustrated by print-maker Pat Gregory. Where the Air is Rarified is published by Cinnamon Press. And you can catch more piccies of Susan's launch on her website.

More very exciting news from Susan is her imminent trip to Svalbard. Living up to the title Polar Poet, she has won funding to undertake a writing trip this summer - so expect to hear more from her about this expedition to the icy wilderness - real polar bear country!

For myself, I've been beavering away on a new collection too. Inspired by Susan's wonderful poems about Scott of Antarctica, I've spent months out on the sea-ice lost in my imagination. My new collection is a sequence about Shackleton's Endurance voyage to Antarctica in 1914. And the proofs for this new chapbook, 'Mad, Hopeless & Possible', to be published by Original Plus press, reached me this week. So by the time Susan and I perform together again after the summer, we will have much news to swap and two new books for the table.

Check out our sister websites for more details but I promise, there'll be more updates here too.