Poet in Residence

Since 2018, I have been writing poems about a character called ‘the barman’. He doesn’t have a name, and neither does anyone else in the world of the poems......

On , reading in a pandemic and a cento call-out......

Helen Bowell is our Digital Poet-In-Residence for February 2021. ...

This week’s writing exercise invites readers to write about a living thing (be it animal, bird, plant, insect etc) that ...

In early 2017 I had the good fortune to come back to the UK to undertake a Clarissa Luard Award ...

This week’s writing exercise invites readers to write about the journey of a significant object or personal family heirloom, using ...

In early 2017 I had the good fortune to come back to the UK to undertake a Clarissa Luard Award Residency at The Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere...

David Tait is the author of four Smith|Doorstop collections: 'Love's Loose Ends'; 'Three Dragon Day'; 'Self Portrait with The Happiness' and 'The AQI'....

A number of my students love watching Game of Thrones and a number of the younger students quote from it directly....