Thursday, January 09, 2014. In the first few weeks after I delivered bub, I felt as though a truck had run over me but somehow left me with a very cute baby. I was dazed, sleepless, in pain, exhausted and with just about enough sense to recognise the joy of finally bringing bub into the world. Life was a blur of feeding and nappy changing with a background score of a lot of crying.

I am in the middle of designing a couple of new online writing courses. It is an exciting stage. I have a paper everywhere and notes written on every scrap. I have so many ideas but wanted to ask you what kinds of creative writing courses you are interested in taking. Would you prefer more creative courses to give your writing a kick start or courses introducing key aspects of writing? Would you prefer beginner or more advanced courses? Thursday, 23 September 2010.

Essex Book Festival 7th March at Canvey. Three Essex poets will be reading and discussing their poetry. Derek Adams, Rosie Sandler and Adrian Green represent the diversity of poetic responses to the Essex environment and will be reading from their own publications as well as anthologies from the festival. Is a poet and photographer who has published 3 poetry collections,.