....there's a time and a place for That Sort of Thing (and it's definitely not here and it's definitely not now!). Creative provocations on poetry, place writing, the inappropriate, the out-of-context, the bizarre, the beautiful, the lost-and-found.
I'm Mike Conley, a poet and teacher from Northern England. I like doing close analysis of poems. My project: an A-Z of the poets on my bookshelves: analysing one poem from one living and one dead poet for each letter of the alphabet.
A cosy space for clued-up writers, aspiring scribblers, and anyone with the itch to get words on the page. Open & honest insights into the writing life. There’s always coffee in the pot.
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Notes about my poetry, my workshops and what it's like to do a PhD. Living and working in the Yorkshire Dales. The sound of a train called SIXTY rumbling a few years away.
