The Meaning Of Words  Words are mysterious. How do they carry meaning? Does meaning live inside a word, like the spirit in a body, or ride upon the word like a jockey on a horse? In speech or on the page, how do words convey their ghostly meanings from my mind to yours? How do words change their meaning in different contexts? How do they, like a chameleon, take colour from their surroundings and yet remain the same chameleon? Words are magical as well as mysterious. You can conjure poems and stories seemingly out of thin air just with words … Continue reading Mal Leicester

Listening To Ted Reflections on how the work of Ted Hughes influenced me as a young writer and continues to do so:- As a child I ran through the summer fields, composing poetry in my head, long before I ever … Continue reading Matthew Spittles article

Why would you write in English when it’s not your mother tongue? ‘You could always just translate your poems to Dutch?’ my mother soothingly advised me a while ago in response to my rant about my difficulties in finding doors … Continue reading Cecile Bol article

Cecile Bol Cecile Bol is a Dutch writer with a small family and a big garden in the north of the Netherlands. She is the co-leader of a local English poetry circle. Her English work has appeared (or is due to appear) … Continue reading impspired magazine number 1 – articles & essays