jo clement | writer

you take the present tense along

When booking spaces for poetry gigs, it's only a matter of time before the landlord (or whoever is otherwise in charge) specifies firmly,...

Launching the 2015 Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (NCLA) series of readings, I was asked to deliver a First Thursday lunchtime...

Europeans have long kept memories of an enormous green tarped lorry bearing the painted logo JONAH passing through their cities and...

What happens when a poet who hasn't been to a mass in over fifteen years goes back to church? This month I'm starting a residency at St...

For the coming month The Wordsworth Trust will be my home. On arrival, I found previous Poet in Residence Zaffar Kunial's Faber New Poets...

The Long Journey is a new fine letterpress edition of verse by Robert Louis Stevenson is illustrated with contemporary dual-colour wood...

I regularly pursued my walks and, whilst thus exercising, my mind was commonly engaged in devising plans for my conduct in life

I thought nothing of leaving Newcastle after I had done work 7 o'clock on a winter's night and of setting to walk to Cherryburn

With conference season well and truly upon us, it has been a great privilege to work with Jennifer Richards and her AHRC network ­­Voices...

At the Wordsworth Trust Symposium, I had the opportunity to meet Dr Manny Ling from the University of Sunderland. Earlier in the...

By some happenstance, during today's research I stumbled upon this visual representation of the pitfalls and benefits of book...