Rogue Strands
Poets & Players | Organising free events in Manchester since 2004 (founded by Linda Chase)
Welcome to my website, where you can read about my publications to date, my interests and experiences, my hopes for the future and my ideas. I use the blog to post poetry reviews and short essays on individual poems and collections. There is also a contacts page where you can email me. I’ve spent most of my working life as an English teacher at the Manchester Grammar School. Teaching has been a wonderfully stimulating and rewarding way of life, despite the inhibiting pressure of exams. Now I organise poetr
Saturday Poetry Discussions in the Manchester Buddhist Centre: We have been very fortunate to be offered accomodation in the library at the Manchester Buddhist Centre at 16–20 Turner Street, Manchester M4 1DZ. These events are open to anyone who wants to come, and there’s no need to book, but people attending will need to bring their own copies of the poems we discuss.
There’s no payment for the group as such but I do ask people attending to make a £5 donation to the Buddhist Centre. I will collect this donation at the meeting.
Rogue Strands
Poets & Players | Organising free events in Manchester since 2004 (founded by Linda Chase)