I have been booked this week, so has the whole family - not just in the conventional busy sense but also in terms of being surrounded by books.

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My elder son celebrated 'Book Week' by dressing up for school as Captain Hook and parents were also invited to accompany their children to a book fair in school. I was amazed, and pleased, by how much effort is put into the whole thing. The staff all had fantastic costumes on Friday and when I helped out with year two (six and seven year olds)on Thursday, they were writing book reviews.

On the book front, I have been enjoying two poetry collections this week: Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts (review to follow soon) and Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra. I also finished reading Pascal Petit's excellent Poetry School online course Towards a Collection, though I have plenty more practical exrecises to do as I try to sort out my own poems!

It has definitely been a week of reading and editing rather than writing, as I had the proofs back for one of my poems which is due (fingers crossed) to appear in Orbis and also had my latest Writers Bureau poetry assignment back. I have had lots of really valuable feedback and was pleased to realise I am finding it easier and easier to almost completely redraft poems, where neeeded, rather than sticking to earlier drafts and trying to change as little as possible. It feels like it has been a very productive week. Hope everyone else has had a good week too.