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Oct.12.2012
My first poetry chapbook, The Holy Place, co-authored with John Dotson, has just been published by Peter Thabit Jones of The Seventh Quarry Press (Swansea) and Stanley H. Barkan of Cross-Cultural Communications (New York).
You can find more details here on my website.
The chapbook, the...
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Sep.24.2010
I have a seal poem in the current Writelink 'Grape and Grain' competition here. If you would like to read it, you can follow the link here.
Others are also taking part in the competition, and I speak for us all when I say that any votes or constructive comments would be appreciated. You can...
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May.21.2010
http://carolinegillpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/05/poetic-people-37-juliet-w...
You can find my interview at the link above. Juliet's sparkling new collection has just come out.
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Mar.08.2010
Competition Corner (3): Writelink Spring Fever OVER TO YOU... (Spring is in the Air)
Along with a fair few others, I have entered a poem in the WriteLink 'Spring Fever' competition. If we are members of forums or have our own blogs, we are encouraged to include a link to our poem (which also...
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Oct.08.2009
Happy National Poetry Day - in UK!
I have been longing for the revelation of the Poetry Society's surprise knitted poem. The knitting was carried out 1000 heroic members of the Poetry Society as part of the centenary celebrations. It seems to me that this poem is not only a suitable poem for...
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Oct.03.2009
My poem, 'Sleepover at the Museum' took 3rd Prize in the 2009 competition, run as part of the Cambridge 800 anniversary celebrations. You can read about it here (and find a link to the poem).
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Oct.03.2009
I have a poem, Stranger, in the new anthology edited by Patrick T. Randolph from Wisconsin - La Crosse, 'Empty Shoes' (Popcorn Press).
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Oct.03.2009
You might like to visit my new Echo Verse blog...
Please let me know if you know examples of Echo Verse.
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Oct.03.2009
I am wondering how to gear up for National Poetry Day on this coming Thursday. I look forward to seeing the revelation of the Poetry Society's 'Knit a Poem' project.
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Sep.18.2009
18 September marks the anniversary (well, one of them - follow the link to have this explained!) of the birth of the famous British lexicographer, Samuel Johnson.
We have just returned from the magical island of Skye, following in the footsteps of Johnson and Boswell. We took a copy of Boswell's...
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Sep.03.2009
I was delighted to receive my copy of the latest edition (issue 10) of The Seventh Quarry, edited by Peter Thabit Jones, with assistance from Vince Clemente, the Consultant Editor in America (and creator of the beautiful poem on p.9, 'And I think of Roses'). The issue maintains its Welsh roots -...
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Aug.17.2009
Poems on the Web (3): WAVES, tercet ghazal
I mentioned The Ghazal Page ezine (ed.Gino Peregrini) in an earlier web post. My Tercet Ghazal, 'Waves', is now online. There is a link to it under the heading 'Sky' on the right hand side of the page, or you can find the poem here.
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Aug.10.2009
The Guardian Obituary for Aeronwy Thomas-Ellis has now appeared, and you can read it here.
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Aug.06.2009
Aeronwy Thomas: translator, writer and daughter of Dylan Thomas | Times Online Obituary
You can read The Times obituary of Aeronwy Thomas, daughter of Dylan, by following the link above.
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Aug.06.2009
Yesterday, 5 August, marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alfred Lord Tennyson, one of the greatest UK poets and Poet Laureates. He was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire on August 6, 1809. He died on 6 October 1892 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where he has a memorial bust and...
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'Caroline Gill's [poem] SWANSONG ... also very memorable.'”
—Jim Bennett (reviewing the anthology, Boho Women peeling Oranges), The Poetry Kit online.
About Caroline
Caroline Gill lives in Suffolk, having recently moved from Swansea in Wales, UK, seaside home town of the poet, Dylan Thomas. Caroline lives with her husband David, an archaeologist. She won her first poetry prize at the age of eleven for a poem entitled '...
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