Author diaries

Back to work

It’s that end of school holiday and back to work time: the nights are getting darker earlier and the wind is blowing leaves off the trees. It reminds me of having to put on my winter uniform, which was warm for the chilly mornings, but always too thick and hot when I trailed home in the September afternoon weather. Especially as I gathered up my navy pleated skirt at the waist to make it into a mini (it was far too bulky to look any good) but then the sixties was the period when girls wore false eyelashes made of plastic. I seem to remember mine came free with a magazine - we looked like we had dead spiders plastered onto our top lids.

We have gathered in most of our poems for The Ropes anthology, and are photographing ropey images for the front covers (there will be two, as each end will also be a beginning).
We are also trying to get the poets to gives us teen photos plus 50 words. Unfortunately, not every poet has a picture from their past, but when one turns up they add a whole new dimension to the pages.

We have one or two gaps, so any suggestions for poems relevant to adolescents gratefully received. Maybe there was a poems that really meant something to you when you were a teenager?
Why not let us know with a short piece about why it was important.

This should test whether anyone takes any notice of this blog (plodding along at once a month).

I’ve missed September entirely and have nearly run out of October, so I shall post this and try and catch up with myself, before November is done with.

Posted by Ellen on 30 October 2007 at 04:09 PM GMT [Link]