I have failed spectacularly at updating this blog and I don't know that I should apologise for something I am so good at.
Anyway, there is News.
I have been invited by India Today's web-only magazine, The Daily O, to contribute a fortnightly column on poetry. It was meant to be a curatorial column, where I trawl the web and social media and find poems that I curate into a column; but I heard the phrase 'social media' and I shuddered, baulked and felt faint all at the same time, so the editors sat me down, gave me hartshorn and burnt some feathers under my nose and asked me what I wanted to do instead.
I thought I'd do something like the Guardian's Poetry Workshop. I miss it, I miss the poems that the curators found through it.
So that's what I thought I'd do: I'd offer a prompt in one column, and invite contributions which I'd sift through, pick a few and talk about in the next.
I don't know why I am saying all this here, because this is what the first column is more or less about, and you may as well read that, right?
As always, the Naming of Cats and Columns is a Very Important Thing. I think I explained (in the column) how I got to The Sideways Door as a name. Maybe I didn't. If I didn't, tell me in the comments and I'll tell you what other names I considered.
Am I forgetting something? Oh yes - the link to the column: The Sideways Door.
Anyway, there is News.
I have been invited by India Today's web-only magazine, The Daily O, to contribute a fortnightly column on poetry. It was meant to be a curatorial column, where I trawl the web and social media and find poems that I curate into a column; but I heard the phrase 'social media' and I shuddered, baulked and felt faint all at the same time, so the editors sat me down, gave me hartshorn and burnt some feathers under my nose and asked me what I wanted to do instead.
I thought I'd do something like the Guardian's Poetry Workshop. I miss it, I miss the poems that the curators found through it.
So that's what I thought I'd do: I'd offer a prompt in one column, and invite contributions which I'd sift through, pick a few and talk about in the next.
I don't know why I am saying all this here, because this is what the first column is more or less about, and you may as well read that, right?
As always, the Naming of Cats and Columns is a Very Important Thing. I think I explained (in the column) how I got to The Sideways Door as a name. Maybe I didn't. If I didn't, tell me in the comments and I'll tell you what other names I considered.
Am I forgetting something? Oh yes - the link to the column: The Sideways Door.
