Ah lads it feels good to read poems in front of people again

When I was 21 and doing poetry gigs several times a week it used to drive me mad when older poets said “keep writing!”. Found it so patronising. Now I am 31 and just wrote my first poem in over a year and I think maybe they were onto something

I know we didn’t mark the occasion really but last month was a decade since we started Boomerang Club. If you know, you know. If you don’t, you missed out

Last night I went to the launch of Amy Acre’s new collection, Mothersong. There were readings from Amy, Fran Locke, Cai Draper and Jess Murrain, and it was lovely.