Issue 7 poetandgeek.com out now

Lucky 7!

Cross over into the world of poetandgeek.com featuring new international poetry from Joan McNerney, Paul Tristram, Daniel Roy Connelly, Maeve Henry, Yann Rousselot, Fanni Suto, Marc Carver, Thomas Clark, Sheree Mack, Rafa Ayala in translation by Roger Hickin, Jane Aldous, Michael Lee Johnson, Sara Clark, Sye Sanders. And the alt-interview is back with the fearless Andrew Forster and Andrew Fisher.

Read more here http://www.poetandgeek.com/issue7/issue07.html

Return of the alt-interview

Issue 7 is due out and we are glad to say that the alt-interview is back.

If you haven't come across this form of interview before, it is an anti-interview technique. The interviewees make their choice from a selection of (quite) random questions. The aim is to uncover information about them that a more familiar method would leave untouched. In issue 7 poet Andrew Forster and scrabble champion Andrew Fisher take the challenge.

Let us know if you want to...

Previous alt-interviewees include poet Peter Hughes and art taxidermist David Blyth.

You can read them here http://www.poetandgeek.com/issue1/issue01.html

Poet's day

And you can meet Rab Wilson too. Along with poet of place and memory Andrew Forster and the chameleon interpreter of Ovid J L William. And yours truly.

Still a few places if you are quick and an intriguing line up of attendees to network with too. Not to mention beverages and biscuits. It is all happening on 31st August. More details here http://www.cabn.info/training-business-advice/poets-day.html

Poet's development day, Hawick, Scotland 31st August 2013

Are you a poet looking to develop your career? Here is a unique chance to learn from a successful quartet of poets with a track record of publication, professional placements, editorship and residencies between them.

Poets' Day is a chance for poets to get together for a day of inspiration and practical advice with Andrew Forster (Literature Officer, Wordsworth Trust) and Jennifer Williams (Programme Manager, Scottish Poetry Library). Plus Bridget Khursheed of poetandgeek.com and Rab Wilson, the YES Poet in Residence.

1.45 pm - 5.00 pm, followed by a chat and nibbles (yes!) and it is free...

Find out more here http://cabn.info/training-business-advice/poets-development-day.html