Writing and Teaching:
Part of my work in schools is often an inset session with teachers so that they can become writers themselves and therefore better teachers of writing.  I’m on the Committee of the National Association of Writers in Education and for many years was editor of their journal Writing in Education.

Editing and Reviewing: 
I’m poetry editor for Jewish Renaissance which usually has a poetry page containing new poems by Jewish writers or on Jewish themes and reviews of new poetry books.  I also contribute to the review section and the poets-I-go- back-to section for The North published by the Poetry Business.

Poetry Readings: 
My recent readings include work in progress, A Rough Guide to Hospitals of the World, together with poems from my last collection, The Same Country, for Off the Shelf in Sheffield; for Chesterfield and Nottingham.

From A Rough Guide to Hospitals of the World

University of Moscow Medical School 1986

Welcome to Moscow, our great city, our prestigious university
here in medical centre we can show you wonders of Soviet
Medicine, everything good for citizens, good for world.
Come this way, this is specimens room, forward, please.

We have pickled brains of important heroes, all in jars.
These brains have done many inventions, many theories,
mathematical, astronomical, psychological, many more.
And over here we have small pieces of human body

but people very famous, have done big steps in our country,
and in universe, in space-travel. Please consider little jar here,
man very great in science of space. Comrades, this little piece
of human anatomy, this Gargarin’s appendix.

Future Workshops, Readings and Residencies:

Writing Weekend in Bridlington for practised and beginner writers in prose and poetry: 3rd to 5th October 2008.

Accommodation (ensuite single rooms, breakfast and evening meal) and tutition: £135
For further details and booking form email Liz at: lizcashdan@onetel.com