Julie Corbett lives in Hull and her chap book On the Humber is available from www.foldedword.com. She has read Beverley and Bridlington Literature Festivals and has received commissions for poetry performances at Humbermouth Literature Festival and the BBC’s Contains Strong Language. Her poems have been published in several poetry magazines and anthologiesand Julie was included in Versions of the North: Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry, a collection by sixty Yorkshire poets published by Five Leaves Publications. Her poem ‘Paragon Station and the Emigrants Waiting Room’ has been chosen to be part of the Places of Poetry anthology due to be published autumn 2020 by One World Publishing. This pleases her greatly.
The photo below is part of a seed order placed on 1st January 2020. I took up a tenancy of an allotment plot in February 2019. The plot was overrun with brambles and bindweed. It also had a considerable amount of rubbish from fly tipping.
Sometimes I say I am a poet. This blog is both ongoing history and retrospective, a journey journal where I hope to write to learn to write.