Poetry School | A Room Of One’s Own | Activity https://poetryschool.com/groups/a-room-of-ones-own/ Activity feed for the group, A Room Of One’s Own. Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:03:14 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 05dd13b954b98b955223cebca15b1b8b Marilyn Hammick posted an update in the group A Room Of One’s Own: Hi everyone Ive just found this group .. lots of fun looking […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/36336/ Sat, 28 Mar 2015 13:32:32 +0000 Hi everyone
Ive just found this group .. lots of fun looking at the pics, thank you. I travel between homes in UK and France.
While my house in France was in the early stages of being a project my writing space moved as the building work moved! Now we’re almost done and I have this wonderful space inside and, even better, a writing place on the terrace with a view of the Pyrenees … a real privilege






]]> 3 69a5fee7bde528d97eda7c518e552d24 Lydia Popowich posted an update in the group A Room Of One’s Own: This is my favorite space in the house for writing. It's a […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/23677/ Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:30:12 +0100 This is my favorite space in the house for writing. It’s a sunny corner of the open plan living space with a view across fields out to sea. My cat usually likes to join in but not always in the most helpful ways….
]]> 2 3fa8e833cd429a74867c2a108c76ed5b J V Birch posted an update in the group A Room Of One’s Own: I really like this group - it's wonderful looking at all the […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/17138/ Fri, 30 May 2014 07:47:04 +0100 I really like this group – it’s wonderful looking at all the posts. This is my space most of the time. I need somewhere comfortable, preferably in the sun, so actually tend to follow it around the house as it moves! But this is my favourite, and yes that is a robin on the wall in the background – they don’t look like that here in South Australia, strange the little things you miss. I never sit at a desk to write as this is what I do for the day job, hence I opt for cushions 🙂



]]> 1 744b5872fa37e9a09bd17e557642711b john foggin posted an update in the group A Room Of One’s Own: the very last try, this. I think I've got the idea. And but […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/15733/ Fri, 16 May 2014 09:08:38 +0100 the very last try, this. I think I’ve got the idea. And but for Kim Moore’s urging I’d have kicked it into touch sometime ago. Anyway, apologies to those of you who want rooms and haven’t got them, and hats off to those who can write on sofas and trains and in cafes.
]]> 2 9077c5cd3093facf7f1c737ab54381b6 Ramona Herdman posted an update in the group A Room Of One’s Own: Fascinating seeing the spaces everyone uses. I start off […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/15728/ Fri, 16 May 2014 07:37:27 +0100 Fascinating seeing the spaces everyone uses. I start off poems anywhere, too, as they come, but this is where I work at them afterwards. I’ve had a bedroom of my own plenty of times in house-shares, but this is the first time I have had a separate writing room. (I do work at the day job in here, too, though – maybe I could get someone to build me an ‘earning money’ shack in the back garden in order to remove that corruption . . . ) It is also the room the cat has chosen as her own, hence the toys on the floor.
]]> 1 ff38436fbccf4dc809595bd7ba71346a Hilary Robinson posted an update in the group A Room Of One’s Own: Here's where I've been working today. Sadly, I don't have […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/15696/ Thu, 15 May 2014 19:43:42 +0100 Here’s where I’ve been working today. Sadly, I don’t have the luxury of a room of my own. (Thinks…never have. Went straight from sharing a room with my sister to sharing a room with my husband.) Never went away to study as I went to Uni when the children were little. Then I worked at the kitchen table late into the night.
I harbour plans to sort out the smallest bedroom but it is stuffed with books, fabrics, felt making and painting equipment and other ‘stuff’. It will be a long job, I think.
]]> 2 2835785a4c4a07031a49dbf7f0166a51 john foggin posted an update in the group A Room Of One’s Own: I realised I'd written on the wrong bit of this […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/15669/ Thu, 15 May 2014 14:57:44 +0100 I realised I\’d written on the wrong bit of this discursive,reflective chain that I thrive amongst sensoery overload, and cannot think straight in plain quiet places. Both me and my partner are compulsive collectors of stuff…stones, pictures, tins, fabrics, bric a brac. I think we both like something to look at wherever we turn our eyes. But I do like my own, personally cluttered, space, with a particular order to the clutter. I regret that the Pitt-Rivers museum in Oxford had become organised. And bits of stuff do turn into poems…like the ghostly fox whose bones I brought back from two separate trips to Alicante. I\’m very fond of my fox. I think she died happy. I hope so. She was certainly in a good place, up on a limestone ridge with vast views. If I\’m doing this right, I\’ll add a fast workshop poem about the mild anxieties attendant on accumulating tons of stuff, much of which has no apparent purpose. A bit like poems.
john foggin uploaded new file(s): after-i.docx to A Room Of One’s Own

]]> 2 5ecb4f8c00abce9dfc14bcfdc35845d5 Rachel Davies posted an update in the group A Room Of One’s Own: This is my office. I work in here whenever the house is empty […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/15666/ Thu, 15 May 2014 14:41:05 +0100 This is my office. I work in here whenever the house is empty and I can get my thoughts filling the space without any interruptions. I don’t play music or have the telly on while I work. Just my laptop and the thoughts in my head. Anyone in the house when I’m working knows I’ll be out of here when I’m ready for a tea break so I’m not disturbed. Very often!
]]> 9 3c731c3da0b440a85066edfcc40e7bfe Maggie How posted an update in the group A Room Of One’s Own: These are some of the spaces I use to write: Last summer I […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/15619/ Wed, 14 May 2014 21:40:24 +0100 These are some of the spaces I use to write:
Last summer I treated myself to a long weekend at St John’s College Cambridge – a wonderful room at the top of one of the old wooden staircases, overlooking the Bridge of Sighs – a short story appeared there. Then there’s the promenade at Grange-over-Sands – plenty of seats along the way to catch a note. My birthday room at Lumb Bank, at the top of the house again – I wrote over 18 poems that week! The view from my window at the Hurst, and finally a secret seat somewhere in Cumbria, where I often return to listen to the birds and write.
]]> 2 273ba10d4d587012da5a735726aa4c00 Will Barrett (Poetry School) posted an update in the group A Room Of One’s Own: My desk. It's messy, which means I've been busy. Also, […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/15593/ Wed, 14 May 2014 17:10:25 +0100 My desk. It’s messy, which means I’ve been busy. Also, having a fixed place to work is new to me and I’m not entirely comfortable with it yet. This is my first proper desk, having freelanced for many years, which often means hot-desking or improvising with whatever space is available (this includes: on top of a working photocopier, fire escape stairwells, cross-legged in a broken elevator, in the waiting room of a hospital across the street, a disabled toilet).

My degree was in art history, and for a long time I wanted to be a curator or picture conservationist, hence the wall decorations. As a partially deaf beta male with no sense of smell and eczema, it’s unsurprising my eyeballs bring me so much pleasure. I cannot cope with a blank wall. If you give me an empty wall space I am guaranteed to turn it into some sort of exhibition. It’s a disease.
]]> 3 39feaff78f8b1241dea5d7abf1e7e342 Canonette posted an update in the group A Room Of One’s Own: I loved that article, Kim. I can completely understand the […] https://poetryschool.com/campus/p/15590/ Wed, 14 May 2014 17:01:39 +0100 I loved that article, Kim. I can completely understand the pact you made with yourself, although I wouldn\’t go so far as to get it inked on my arm! I\’m finding that I want to write my first drafts in public places at the moment; cafes or the library – writing needn\’t be a solitary task.

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