Saturday 24th September - The Summer magazine (delayed) is with the printer now. The substituted Spring mag is there too, and the collection earmarked for Autumn. Anthology 4 is in collation behind the scenes and setions have started for Anthology 5. The Poole Word & Book Festival is approaching fast and preparation for that is in full swing.

Sunday 18th September - The site update is being completed today. Final preparation for four projects to go to bulk printing together. The first polls to select work for Anthology 5 start today! Winners of polls 49 and 50 for Anth 4 are shown below further down the page.

Week beginning 12th September - We have been filming for a DVD project for Poole Word & Book Festival and passing around the Booktag books. The Summer Magazine is almost complete and ready for a print proof.

Week beginning 5th September - Work has been continuing with the print projects and planning for the Poole Word & Book Festival.

Saturday 3rd September - The picosearch feature on the homepage has been fixed.

Friday 2nd September - Sent an email newsletter (number 13) out to registered emails. You can register and look at the archive here. Held a workshop for MIND in Poole for the DVD project for Poole Word & Book Festival.

Thursday 1st September - Held the first Survivors' Poetry session in Poole. Completed a mini site for Spiel and there is a forum for Spiel too..

Wednesday 31st August - Went to London to try to see Nii Parkes today - got stuck in traffic and then lost and ended up having a drink with Fan and Claude and entourage, which was fun :-) Had final cover draft from The River Swam. Have rescheduled all printing of book and magazine projects to bulk print after 19th Sept to save money on the printing.

Tuesday 30th August - Spotlight page completed.

Sunday 28th August - Site updated. New excel file for titles index. Poetry polls 1 and 2 updated. Poetry pages 1 2 3 4 5 updated. New Poetry page updated. New spotlight poll page is two third completed.

Saturday 27th August - There are new poems on the new poetry page and in the members' area. Site update in progress. New review on the booktag page. New review on reviews page. New excel file for titles index and I have added an extra page for the next anthology titles. Members forum is busy with discussions - we welcome feedback, so please feel free to join in. Winners of polls 47 and 48 are listed below, as are the results of the recent spotlights and details of the spotlights coming up.

Monday 22nd August - Site updated. New excel file for titles index. Poetry polls 1 and 2 updated. Poetry pages 1 2 3 4 5 updated but new poetry and members new poetry are still empty. POll 45 and 46 results are listed further down the page.

Saturday 20th August - Booktag books some reviews are up to get us started, while I read the rest.

Friday 19th August - Collected Booktag books and started reading them for the first tag for Poole Word & Book Festival. Survivors' Poetry in Poole goes live in September with a first Thursday session in Ottakars coffee shop, Falklands Square, Poole, Dorset. See web page. Cathedral Poems has some review snippets online. More work on Glimpses of Notes. Sonnets to Let final print proof for text sent away.

Sunday 14th August - Magazine news...Our delayed Spring magazine substitution project has been print proofed once for text and corrected, then sent back for reproofing. We are expecting that any day. The cover is in design and almost ready for print proofing. I expect to be sending that out at the end of the month. The Summer Magazine from Nigerian writers was delayed because of communication and logistical problems between here and Nigeria-the project has been sent for a first print proof, cover and text. Again, this should be ready by the end of the month. Site update was completed in the early hours of this morning and new poems were sent around the panel. There are updates in the Poole Word & Book Festival area. New page for John Barclay, Booktagging, Poetry Slam, Poetry Elections. More to come plus a brochure over the next week.

Saturday 13th August - Cathedral Poems review copies have been sent out. Webiste is being updated today - polls 43 and 44 results are listed below. New poems on new poetry page, poetry pages 2 and 4. Members' area will have new work shortly. I have closed down the members' feedback alley feature as we now have the members' forum. I have been working on the Poole Word & Book Festival 2005 (official Poole Word & Book Festival website) and we have a new page for our local booktag feature. The events page has been updated. New members' points list and new titles list excel file online now.

Wednesday 10th August - Cathedral Poems page has been updated. There are some new poems listed in the titles index file. The events page has been updated.

Tuesday 9th August - new excel document online for the titles index - more new work has been passed around the panel and indexed. Andrew Taylor's Cathedral Poems has been featured in the News section of the Downtown Liverpool site. See our press release. If you aren't sure whether to buy it yet, copies are available in Liverpool Central Library, Cosham Library, Portsmouth Central Library and Poole Central Library. If you would like to have it or any other book in your local library, it will help sales enormously if you ask the library to order them for you. Quote the ISBN number and Paula Brown Publishing to order. If you are sure that you want to buy it, here is our order form.

Sunday 7th August - Hall of Fame page updated with the authors' other projects. Please vote now for your favourite writer from Anthology 3. If you don't have a copy, please consider buying one as it is how we fund the site and how we offer publication to single author collections. It also gives you a voice for who will win our annual People's Poet competition. I have updated our events page. Poole Survivors' Poetry and Portsmouth Survivors Poetry pages updated. Poster for Poole Survivors and poster for Portsmouth Survivors updated. New Poetry page has new poems.

Saturday 6th August - Site update in progress today (winners of last polls listed below) so check all the poetry pages, excel files and poll pages. Andrew Taylor's Cathedral Poems is out now! Press Release here. Order form here. PBP site has had a tidy up.

Tuesday 2nd August - AMPfest on 30th July was a great success! If you have broadband (the file is 4MB!) and you have Adobe Acrobat reader, please go to our After AMPfest newsletter as a pdf file online. CLICK HERE to read it. I have a uni assignment to finish over the next 2 days and then I will do a proper site update.

Friday 29th July - Apologies - I forgot to complete the site page uploading on Monday - AMPfest took over and I have been completing book projects. Cathedral Poems by Andrew Taylor is in the office now. Site pages are now uploaded. I will be updating the site again early next week so please get your votes in quickly! Poll pages 1 and 2 have new work, as do poetry pages 1 2 3 4 5, new poetry page and the members area new poetry page.

Monday 25th July - Work continues on the belated Spring magazine and the Summer community magazine. The site update will be online shortly. There is a new "accomplishments to date" document online now. New excel file for current titles index. Recent Poll winners listed further down the page.

Friday 22nd July - I have completed the behind the scenes site update so the new pages will be online shortly. I have completed the first draft of the late Spring magazine substitution - this will be a first collection from an author from a previous magazine and I hope that you will enjoy the change from the magazine format. Summer community magazine is almost complete from our Nigerian writers and guest editor. Sonnets to Let is complete to print proof stage. Glimpses of Notes is still in progress.

Sunday 17th July - I have been working on Sonnets To Let today - first draft finished. I have also been editing a first collection for a writer as a mentor for Survivors' Poetry. The magazines are still with the typesetter. Final draft of Cathedral Poems was approved and it has now been ordered. Copies will arrive by the end of July. AMPfest is still in heavy planning in preparation for 30th July and there is a Poetry Slam in a New Town! for National Poetry Day this year.Poole Word and Book Festival events have been approved and the budget secured. I have completed Karin Skold's website today.

Tuesday 12th July - I have just completed the first draft of the mentoring scheme collection for a poet from Survivors' Poetry. This will be produced by Survivors' Poetry in November. Work for AMPfest and the Poole Worda Book Festival continues. Cathedral Poems by Andrew Taylor is with the printer for one final print proof before making the order. The typesetter has the Spring and Summer magazines in hand. Work has recommenced on Glimpses of Notes. Poems submitted during the year continue to be sent around the panel and will appear online as time allows. And it was my birthday yesterday - 36 already!

Sunday 10th July -There is a new titles index excel file to download. Site update is complete behind the scenes and I am starting the visible work online. There is a new members' points list in the members' area. Poll 37 and 38 results are below on this page. Poll 39 and poll 40 are online now. Poetry pages 1 2 3 4 5 members' new poetry and new poetry pages have all been updated.

Monday 4th July -There is a new titles index excel file to download. Many more poems have been sent around the panel and indexed and some are yet to be indexed. Work continues on all of the book projects and the two magazines in hand. I'm waiting for proofs of the cover of Glimpses of Notes and Cathedral Poems. Dave is working hard on AMPfest.

Sunday 3rd July - Site update is being completed today. There is a new excel file for the titles index and the poetry polls 1 and 2 have new work. This site will move quickly over the next few weeks to catch up with the poem submissions since moving house. New Poetry page is updated as is the members' area new poetry page.

Friday 1st July - Hi everyone, I'm back online properly at last! Please forgive me if I take a while to catch up with submissions and email. Recent updates include the amp website with details of AMPfest on 30th July, the submit page with our new submissions email address tppsubmissions@btinternet.com, the projects page with loads of new information and the titles index excel file will shortly be online with some updates. I have been planning many print projects and Dave has met with our local arts development unit about future community projects and so the future looks promising :-)The site has closed to submissions for the summer but please keep coming back to the site each week to vote for the final poems in Anthology 4 - site updates will be happening each weekend from tomorrow. There will be more polls than usual over the summer to catch up with the poems submitted this year, so make sure you vote on them all. Please remember to cast your paper vote from the back of Anthology 3 as this is what chooses our People's Poet for the year, who will receive their own anthology.

Thursday 19th May - Poetry Pages 1 2 3 4 5 have been updated. New Poetry Page updated. Members' new poetry page is about to have some more poems added. Polls 1 and 2 have been updated.

Wednesday 18th May - AMP today, Newsletter 2 is out for AMP Click here to download. AMP website updated. Cathedral Poems by Andrew Taylor is with the printer for fianl pre-press and for a final proof. Glimpses of Notes by Alan Corkish is back in pre-press and a meeting is scheduled for June about that. Quotes are in for new Paula Brown Publishing projects. I'm finishing projects and tidying up loose ends in preparation for moving house on 24th May. Site update in progress here. One more site update on Monday 23rd May before I move house. There are new excel files online for the members' points and for the titles index. Polls 33 and 34 results are listed further down the page.

Sunday 8th May - Site updated today. Poll 1 and 2 updated. New Poetry page, pages 1 2 3 4 5 all have been updated. Members' area will have new poetry shortly.

Thursday 5th May - There is an AMP Newsletter online now.

Monday 2nd May - Site update in progress. New excel files for titles index and members' points. Members' forum has a lot of discussion about the site at the moment. Most recent poll winners have been typed in further down the page. For this poll session ONLY we are running a pilot study of how it would work to ONLY count the comments with email addresses given instead of using the poll statistics. Please type a constructive comment about the choice/s you have made this time in the comments box as well as clicking to vote and leave your email address as well. This suggestion came from the members' forum discussion. Many thanks Paula.

Saturday 30th April - Social gathering in Sheffield this evening. Cathedral Poems has gone for a final print proof.

Friday 29th April - I met with Roy Birch of Survivors' Poetry yesterday and we are going to start a local group in Poole once a month. I have just put up an information web page about it. Click here for the Poole Survivors' Poetry group information page. AMP website updated with a new logo. Cathedral Poems now being proofread for a final print proof. Access page updated.

Sunday 24th April - Clive, our composer is promoting a new cd on his page. Dave Fenton has kindly put together a forum for our members to share ideas on. Please see the members' area for links to it. Thanks Dave! There are new excel files online now for members' points and for the titles index. Poetry poll 1 and poll 2 have been updated - please go and vote. Poetry Pages 1 2 3 4 and 5 and the New Poetry Page have been updated.

Tuesday 19th April - Elements banner project walk and talk between Poole and Bournemouth in connection with Poole Ars Development Unit. See flyer here. See webpage here for photos and poetry. Events page has been updated.

Sunday 17th April - March theme results are listed lower down the page now. Theme page is being updated with April theme poems/music now. I'm doing a walk and talk poetry session on Tuesday in Poole. Events Page has been updated. Please Email me if you can make the Sheffield social gathering on Sat 30th April.

Saturday 16th April - AMP at the Lighthouse today. Clive Stocker and his students from Bath College came along today to help the musicians with their preparations to perform. Site updated today. New excel file for titles index and the members' area has a new points file to download. Poetry polls 1 and 2 have been updated. Polls 25 and 26 results are listed lower down the page. Members' area has new work. New poetry page has new work. Poetry Page 1 has new work.

Sunday 10th April - there is a new excel file for the titles index today and the members' area has a new members' points file. Poetry poll 1 and poetry poll 2 have been updated and the new poetry page has new work on it. There is a new event on 30th April, just a social gathering in Dinnington, Sheffield, UK. Please email me if you want to come and meet us for the first time or catch up with old friends. I'm also coming twice/maybe three times to London soon if anyone wants to catch up with me there (20th April and early May). Members' area will have some new work there shortly.

Friday 8th April - it was Eric Bird's funeral today. Please see our memorial page and also the AMP website - where there is a memorial page. We made a banjo out of flowers for him.

Tuesday 5th April - Voting is well underway from Anthology 3 for our next People's Poet. If you haven't voted yet, please take the time to do it once you have read the book. It is vital to have the maximum feedback possible in order to choose our People's Poet for 2005. If you don't have a copy of Anthology 3 yet, please consider buying a copy - it is how we fund the site and the only way we can afford to keep producing books.

Monday 4th April - It's hard to believe but it has been a year since John Whitmarsh has been gone. It doesn't really feel that long for me as I have only just completed his Walking With Shadows project book and I am still working on his complete collection for cd pdf file. Ihave put up a page in recognition of the date. See John's page here. There is now some more poetry and a new link on the page for John. I went to see Clive our composer today.

Sunday 3rd April - I've put up a memorial page for Eric Bird from AMP, whose funeral is on Friday 8th March. Competitions page updated, as is the sitemap.

Saturday 2nd April - AMP at Sea View today. New poetry on pages 1 and 3. Members' new poetry has been put on the main site new poetry page. Site update has started behind the scenes. Members' area has some new poetry. Work continues on Cathedral Poems and on Sonnets to Let. All Things Girl has an interview with me featured this month - many thanks to Karen Harvey. There is a new excel file for the titles index online now and the polls 21 and 22 results are listed further down on this page. Publishing links has a couple of new links. The final entry to March's theme is online now - I am going to ask the panel to judge today. Please have a go at April's theme. It should be quite easy with today's computers - or as any other format. The aim is to get you experimenting with other media. Poetry polls 1 and 2 have been updated. There is a new email newsletter out now. See the register page.

Friday 1st April - Budding Poet website updated and a new Spring magazine on pdf for the Budding Poets. Andrew Hider has kindly offered to take on the Budding Poet website from September. Many thanks, Andrew. New poetry sent around the panel.

Thursday 31st March - New poetry sent around the panel. New excel file made for the titles index and more indexing completed on it.

Wednesday 30th March - New poems in the members' area and on the new poetry page. The new poems from a few days ago have been put on pages 2 and 4.

Tuesday 29th March - New Titles Index excel file is online today, comtaining new work as well as some more indexing from Listening (which I am getting through gradually). Paris page has some new images. The Members' area has some new poems and the new poetry page, and several of the poetry pages 1 2 3 4 5 have new work too. I have administrated some panel selections and am about to send some more work around the panel.

Monday 28th March - New poetry in the members' area. Poetry from the members' area has been moved to the new poetry page and pages 1 2 and 5 have some new work moved up.

Sunday 27th March - Happy Easter everyone! The site update is well underway. There is a new titles index excel file online now and a new members' points list, which I have updated. The theme page has another disposable poetry installation to have a look at. I have added a couple of links to the sitemap. Have a look at the poetry poll pages ONE and TWO this afternoon for new polls. Poetry pages 1 2 3 4 and 5 and the new poetry page, as well as the members' new poetry page will all have new work to look at later today. I have some panel selections to administrate as well. More poems have been sent around the panel to preview and these will be indexed shortly. Photos from Paris are here. Connecting our Community pages have been updated.

Saturday 26th March - more work on Cathedral Poems and some behind the scenes work on the website update. Three orders were posted out - so if you have anything you are waiting for, it should be with you on Tuesday.

Friday 25th March - Fresh back from Paris, we met with the Mayor and Mayoress of Poole to award our text poetry competition winners with their prizes. Photos will be online shortly as we have to wait for them to be emailed to us. We have been asked to put on some poetry events for Blandford Arts Festival in August.

Saturday 19th March to Wednesday 23rd March - we are in Paris meeting with Yann, our typesetter, so there will be no site updates.

Friday 18th March - Some work done on the sitemap and some new poetry in the members' area. Working on Cathedral Poems and the next email newsletter. Theme page had a new entry in pdf format.

Wednesday 16th March - January and February theme winners are now listed below. Walking With Shadows page now online at the PBP site and a press release for the book too. More of the books arrive on Monday. Excel document for titles index has been updated and is online now. Plans have been made for Good Friday (25th April) to present the winners of our txtpoetry competition with their prizes at the Orange shop in Poole with our town's Mayor. Photos will be uploaded later.

Tuesday 15th March - I sent a mass of new poems around the panel today and I have been administrating the acceptances from them too. They are being listed on the excel file and then they will be added online. More parcels posted.

Monday 14th March - Site has been updated but new poetry will continue to be added over the next few days. Please see new poetry polls 1 AND 2 and there is some new or reshuffled work on poetry pages 1 2 3 4 5.
Poetic Forms has some new forms (with grateful thanks to infannity!). Parcels posted.

Sunday 13th March - Another poetry installation on the themes page. Members' area has some new poetry and a new file to check your membership status and points to date. Poetry pages New, 3 and 4 have new work on them. New excel file for the titles index. Site update has been started behind the scenes.

Friday 11th March -More poetry added to the members area. The poetry from the members' area moved to the main site and the new poetry moved up. John Whitmarsh's Walkign With Shadows arrived today, as did the remaining winter magazines that have been on order for some time.

Thurs 10th March -I Was a Fairy donated to Mitchell House today and hung on the wall. Photos to follow. Andrew Taylor's link to his text as a word document added to the theme page. AMP rock session tonight at Hamworthy.

Weds 9th March - Site update completed. New poetry poll 1 and poetry poll 2. Many panel selections administrated too. New excel file for titles index uploaded. I am collecting the I Was a Fairy project now it has been framed, ready for donation to the care home tomorrow.

Friday 4th March - Unltd meeting about the AMP project. I have added the first March theme poem. More submissions please!

Thursday 3rd March - Arts Loft organised in Poole. I have updated the events page.

Tuesday 1st March - I have put the I Was A Fairy project in for framing today. I have an interview on Poetry Life and Times at http://www.poetrylifeandtimes.com/current.html. One more poem on the themes page (will send poems round the panel tomorrow an put March's theme up).

Friday 25th February -I have amended the AMP poster, updated the AMP website, made a flyer for the community performance for AMP in Poole in May, plans are well underway for AMPFEST 2005, on 2nd July in Poole. There is a new fun video clip on the amp site from last night's AMP session. If you have broadband connection and can handle a 12meg file, CLICK HERE to download it. You will need Quicktime or something similar to play it on. It's of Dave messing around with some of the musicians and the kids in preparation for a little gig.

Thursday 24th February - New poems in the members' area new poetry page. The panel received some more poems to preview today.

Wednesday 23rd February - Journal/themes page has a new poem. I have listed the winners for Nov and Dec themes below - apologies for the delay with these and the low number of entries was largely because I was moving house and not online, so I was unable to keep the website up to date for some time. The panel has the January poems for their votes now. Please feel free to send in poems for February's Tragedy or Comedy theme. Please make sure that you delete my old email and use paulabrownpublishing@btinternet.com thank you! There is a new titles index file online now. Poetry poll 1 and poll 2 are new today. Poetry pages 1 2 3 4 5 are all new and there is some new work on the members area new poetry page as well as the new poetry page.

Tuesday 22nd February - Ronnie Goodyer has generously offered to help us with two exciting new projects for Paula Brown Publishing. We are accepting submissions for a brand new erotic poetry and art project book to be titled ...and again last night. More news on the PBP projects page. Ronnie has also generously offered to judge a new poetry competition with cash prizes. More news on the PBP award page. John Whitmarsh's collection Walking With Shadows arrived today and I have made an order for a stock of books. Winter magazine proof arrived today and I have made an order for our remaining members and contributors. New poetry page and poetry page 2 has new work, as does the members' area new poetry page. I have also moved a lot of this web log to the weblog archive.

Monday 21st February - New poetry on the members' area new poetry page, new poetry page, poetry pages 1,3,4,5. The panel are considering November December and January themes now. February theme poems are being added now.

Sunday 20th February - New excel file for the titles index online now. Many poems have been sent around the panel today. New link on our links page to Poetry Life and Times and I have been asked to do an interview with them for their March issue.

Saturday 19th February - Our local newspaper photographer came along to photograph the AMP musicians at our Lighthouse session today. Karin and I have finished corrections to Walking With Shadows and both text and cover files are with the printer now for a second proof. There is a pile of packages of Anthology 3 contributor copies to be posted on Monday. More dictionaries of Peace arrived today. Our small press page has been updated.

Friday 18th February - I have added a page online for when Sue went to Stockholm - see our Connecting our Community page.

Thursday 17th February - Email newsletter 11 was sent out. Click here to register if you missed it, you can also view past newsletters on the same page. Winter magazine was print proofed with a new printer and I made some corrections and sent them back on a cd. New proof should be a couple of days. More contributor copies posted of anthology 3.

Wednesday 16th February - Walking With Shadows proof arrived, the text is ready but the cover needs some work. I have updated the competitions page the connecting our community page and the hall of fame page. Karin Skold is currently entertaining Sue Whitmarsh in Stockholm. I have Anthology 3 in stock now. The winter magazine has been reproofed but it needs some amending before the second print. There is an email newsletter in progress, please register if you would like to receive it. There is a new page for Dave Fenton's visit to Poole for the Chinese New Year. Poll 1 and Poll 2 pages have been updated - please go and vote. Members' new poetry page has some new work on there now. New Poetry Page has some new work. Poetry pages 1 2 3 4 5 have new work. Titles Index updated.

Monday 7th February - About page updated. I have collected the I was a Fairy drawings from the framer, mounted for the Library boards and I have mounted them for display in Poole Central Library for two weeks. More images are now on the Anthology 3 page. Hall of Fame page updated. Karin is checking the Walking With Shadows cover and I sent the text to print proofing today after correcting some of the problems with the quality of the text.

Sunday 6th February - Anthology 3 page updated.

Saturday 5th February - Anthology 3 launched

Friday 4th February - Anthology 3 is ready for collection today.

Thursday 3rd February - The trophies are ready for collection today. I have just had to change the email newsletter - please sign up again on the register page if you would like to receive it.

Wednesday 2nd February - There were several glitches to resolve today with Cathedral Poems and the delivery of Anthology 3 so there wasn't much else completed. Our International Women's Day project proposal has been passed on for funding and venue approval.

Tuesday 1st February - The care home project is being mounted in preparation for the Library exhibition in Poole from Monday. The printing of Anth 3 is in progress, the awards are being engraved, the care home project has a new pdf file online and the project has some updates on the page. AMP has a new session on a Saturday morning each week in Poole. Poetry page 4 has some new work. New poetry has some new work. Members' new poetry page has some new work.

Monday 31st January - There are two new spotlight polls up today. I am taking the Care Home project to be mounted. It will be in display at Poole Central Library from 7th February. It has just been named "I was a Fairy". Events page has been updated.

Sunday 30th January - I'm updating the site today. Polls 9 and 10 results are further down the page. There is a new titles index. Polls 11 and 12 are online now. Poetry pages 1 2 3 4 5 have been updated. New poetry has been updated. The members' area has some new poetry in there now.

Friday 28th January - I'm ordering the engraving for the launch today! The care home project has been accepted for dispaly at Poole Central Library from 7th Feb. Met with our town centre manager about our International Women's Day project (see events page)and we are in collaboration with the Study Gallery too. High drama today to get the proof approved for printing Anthology 3 - had to collect it from Bournemouth Airport as it was delivered to the wrong address. It has been approved now and the order is with the printer.

Thursday 27th January - Meeting about our International Women's Day project plans. Poster complete for the Martial Arts demonstration. See our events page. More administration for panel acceptances. 2 more poems on the theme page.

Tuesday 25th January - Dave Fenton has kindly offered to hold a martial arts demonstration for two groups of local day centre visitors, and so we organised that today. We will welcome in the Chinese New Year of the Rooster a day late on 10th Feb with poetry, philosophy and martial arts in Poole. Many thanks to Dave. I added a new titles list and as two poems from poll 1 have been accepted by panellists, I have amended poll 1.

Monday 24th January - Karin is here from Stockholm again - more plans towards the launch of anthology 3, more panel acceptances administrated.

Sunday 23rd January - New poem on the Human Rights page, new excel document for the titles list, Journal/themes page updated, document being compiled for Nov and Dec themes to go round the panel, so if you have a poem about carers or a piece of prose to turn into poetry, please send it in now and I will add it to the list - great prize to be won - an engraved trophy and free entry to the launch of Anthology 4. Please put November or December theme in the subject line of your email. I will accept entries for these until Weds 26th Jan, then it will go to the panel for votes. More new poems in the members' area and on the new poetry page and the new poems have been moved to the main poetry pages. Apologies to everyone still getting error messages on the site - this is because I had to use an old page to correct an error I made with the homepage when updating a few weeks ago and Colin has been very busy with numerous family, voluntary and work commitments - he will find the time to fix it as soon as possible.

Saturday 22nd January - World Subscription form and UK Subscription form has been updated to include Anthology 3, as it is about to be released. I have added more to the self publishing page on the Paula Brown Publishing site. Poetry polls 1 and 2 have been updated as have the new poetry page and the poetry pages. There is a new titles list too. Winter Journal has been uploaded again to the members' area as I have corrected it.

Friday 21st January - PBP site is actually working now! Feedback Alley in the members' area has a contribution (thanks Fanni!). Cathedral Poems jacket uploaded - page to follow shortly. Themes page updated - new poetry will be there shortly. Projects page amended. There is a new titles index file. Poetry Page 2 has some new work, plus new poetry page and the new poetry page in the members' area. Book titles list has been fixed. The about/FAQ page has been amended. Cathedral poems now has a page. We met with Unltd. today about the music project AMP.

Thursday 20th January - AMP meeting this evening at our new school evening session venue (see AMP website). Anthology 3 is with the printer, proof by Tuesday. Plans under way for the launch party on 5th Feb. New Anthology 3 page. This page features the flyer for the launch, press release, titles list and a link to our purchase order. Projects page has been updated. In the members' area, the progress page has been updated. There are many new titles lists to download on the titles list page. Winter Magazine from Edge Hill College of Further Education will be launched on 5th Feb with Anthology 3. Some poetry has been sent around the panel today. Members' area has some new poetry on the new poetry page.

Wednesday 19th January - AMP today - working towards Summer performances. Anthology 3 preparation for print.

Tuesday 18th January - Meeting with adult social services this morning to update them on all of our news and events. Finalising the details of the launch of Anthology 3 in Liverpoool on 5th Feb. Please get in touch if you want to come along. New business cards arrived today with the new address details on. titles list for Anthology 3 uploaded. Click here to view as an excel document. I have proofed and corrected the first draft of Antholgy 3 - second draft arrived from Yann today and I am working on the proofing now. Cathedral Poems is being reproofed at the printers. Titles Index has been uploaded again. The domain name and high level upgrade to our web services has been purchased for the next year and 6 months respectively. Our annual poll has closed down as we have a winner and all of the engraving for the launch is listed ready to order on 21st, when the engraver gets back from holiday! UK subscriptions document has been amended. Rest of World subscription document has been amended. Purchase Order has been amended.

Thursday 13th January - Journal/themes page updated - poetry to follow soon. Broadband being fitted today. Ordered new business cards.

Wednesday 12th January - AMP today - Meeting this morning to plan a big all-day event for AMP in the Summer in Poole with live music and workshops to give the whole town access to music -which is what it is all about! Another meeting on Monday to plan the venue. I got through some emails and did some launch planning.

Tuesday 11th January - Meeting at a local school this morning has finalised a Thursday evening session for the AMP music project in Poole. Titles Index has been updated to include the poetry currently with the panel and the Winter Magazinepoetry. Submissions Page has been updated with the new email address.

Monday 10th January - I met with Mel at Poole Arts Development Unit today about our International Women's Day project "Beautiful" - see our (newly updated) events page. More planning for the Anth 3 launch. Working on the AMP project performance planning. More poetry sent around the panel. AMP page, contact page, Accomplishments document all updated today.

 

Sunday 9th January - Welcome back! If anybody noticed that the site was down for three days - apologies for that! I have renewed the domain after much chasing around the World to find the correct office to renew it with and we are back after a lengthy call to Utah to reinstate our domain name! Glimpses of Notes is being completed in India by Yann, our typesetter and Cathedral Poems is being print proofed for the second time after being corrected. The Winter magazine is being printed after its corrections but I still have to apologise for the index page, as I have been advised since sending it to print that the page numbers are incorrect. Anthology 3 is almost complete and ready to be checked. I have completed the text poetry competition e-book from the Poole Word and Book Festival apart from the cover image, so it should be complete and available to view late this week. If anyone remembers Sarah Tracy from the early days at the site, I heard from her on email last night. She got married in August to Fred and is settled into her new USA life, although missing her older son in England. The site is difficult to update until the new broadband is connected on 13th January but I will do what I can via the web server itself until then. Launch party for Anthology 3 is on 5th Feb at the Everyman Bistro below the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, so please let me know if you are coming. Don't forget that it's our awards night and your chance to collect your anthology without having to pay the postage. We are not ordering food this year but the Everyman has award-winning food and great prices. The e-book page has been updated, Poetry Page 5, New Poetry and the members' downloads and new poetry pages. Future plans include starting work on Stephen Laskey's Sonnets to Let in early Feb, visiting Karin Skold in Stockholm in mid Feb, attending the Paris Book Fair with Yann in March and working on an arts event for International Women's Day, attending the West Country Book Fair on April the 23rd in Exter. AMP, our music project has just secured a partnership agreement with Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts and we have almost secured a Thursday evening session for the project in a local school. We are starting to buy equipment with our funding from the Unltd. Millennium Award Scheme grant and we will shortly be buying recording and PA equipment, microphones etc. There will be a performance at the Lighthouse in Poole on 28th May at 2:30pm entry by donation. The AMP website has been updated

Monday 3rd January - Happy New Year everyone! I'm still slaving over a hot scanner with Glimpses of Notes (99MB per page and my poor computer is struggling with memory problems - I know the feeling!). I have a meeting at the care home tomorrow to show the drawings to the staff. I'm having problems uploading the web page files so this may take a while to get online.

Thursday 30th December - Hi all, the news for today is......
Andrew Taylor's Cathedral Poems are being proofed at the printersto be delivered next week. There were a few omissions of names on the Winter Journal so I have had to send the corrections to pess andso it has been delayed another week. Members may see the uncorrected draft in the members' area. I am working with Yann, our typesetter on Anthology 3 and Glimpses of Notes by Alan Corkish. I have completed the e-book for free viewing by anyone in need of a positive boost. It is intended to support people suffering with mental health issues but it would probably work just as well for anyone feeling like they don't have much confidence or needing some friendly words. It's free to view here via this link CLICK HERE. You can view it in your browser with a pdf viewer. It is just under 1MB. Karin has sent me the drawings from the care home project and I will be framing them and completing the project shortly. More news as it happens.

Sunday 19th December - Hi again! I'm back in a limited way on dial-up pay-as-you-go and so normal service will not be resumed until January when I get the broadband connection back. While I have been "off air", I have completed the Winter magazine and that has been sent for a print proof. It has been uploaded in the members' area for those of you who just can't wait to see it in print! Cathedral Poems by Andrew Taylor is now with the printer for a proof. I am working on Glimpses of Notes by Alan Corkish to complete the typesetting for that and Anthology 3 is well under way. The cover design is being perfected with art from Rufus Dawson and the text is about to be proofed. After a difficult time towards the end of the year we are getting back on track with the print projects. I have also been working with Karin Skold on an art and poetry project for a local care home. We should have that completed shortly. I am also completing a free e-book for the purpose of supporting people experiencing a tough time with mental health problems. We have just judged the txt poetry competition from the Poole Word & Book Festival 2004 and the winner will be announced in January, I will also have an e-book completed around that time to showcase the entries. Early in 2004, I will be working with Karin and Stephen Laskey on the excellent Sonnets to Let collection and preparing for the launch of Anthology 3 that was delayed in November. I will also commence work on the personal collection for Maria Onyango, who won our very first Whitmarsh Prize for young writers. Anyone who came to Poole in October for the Poetry Slam will have been treated to hearing her perform a set way beyond her years. Once I am back on broadband, I will be able to update the pages again. Until then, I will make a note here of any news. Have a great Christmas and let's hope that 2005 is going to be sending us fewer obstacles! Love to all, Paula.

Thursday 2nd December - I have added a page online for the notes from the local care home project click here to view and all of the images enlarge. I am about to move house this weekend and will be offline for a short time before my internet connection is installed. I will be working on the winter journal behind the scenes.

Sunday 28th November - Anthology 3, the first draft is complete and with the typesetter now. Apologies for the delay with this and with the theme pages - family illness, moving house and working on several community projects has set me back rather a lot. I will endeavour to complete and update the theme page shortly. Karin has three drawings well under way for the care home project.

Saturday 27th November - Karin has been working on drawings for the art and poetry project in the care home (we really should think of a name for that!). I have added some new poetry in the members' area and moved the older work there on to the main website. We have had some very positive comments back about the art, poetry and music for the care home on email. Alan Corkish has been broadcasting on Pirate Radio Erbacce today.

Friday 26th November - Sent the pdf file around to everyone involved in the care home project. I was immensely surprised to find Clive had improvised some music to go with the project and will develop it into a cd! The draft working documents for the e-book project and the care home project are on the download page in the members' area now. Have a look and see what you think. The care home project document is only for our reference as it will become drawings and poetry eventually.

Thursday 25th November - Went to the care home again with Karin for more images and words to work with. Made a draft pdf file for our notes. Did some more work on the ebook for supporting people with mental health problems. Did some work on anthology 3. Les Merton from Poetry Cornwall came to visit Karin here. Returned Rufus's paintings from the art exhibition.

Wednesday 24th November - AMP today. I have some new images to add online later. Karin from Stockholm is here and we have been working on a project for the local care home. There is a new excel document online for the titles index. I am adding new poetry to the members' area today and moving the members' area work to the new poetry page.

Monday 22nd November - New poetry on page 5, New Poetry Page, poetry poll 1 and poll 2. The Members' area is currently being updated with new poetry.

Sunday 21st November - Updates have been sparse lately as we are about to move house! Polls 5 and 6 have been completed and winners notified. See below for the winners. There is a new excel file for the titles list. New polls will appear tomorrow. Work has been progress with Glimpses of Notes behind the scenes. Cathedral Poems and the Winter Journal will be proofed shortly.

Thursday 11th November - There is new poetry on Poetry Page 1, 2 and 3, the New Poetry Page and the members' new poetry page. If the site is not looking updated, try using http://nocache.thepeoplespoet.com to enter the site.

Wednesday 10th November - AMP today. The musicians have been working on some songs for the music festival in the Summer on Brownsea Island. The September theme results are now listed below. Ihave passed all of the poetry for the Otober theme to the panel and cleared it from the theme page and started to add November's poetry to the page. Ploughed through some emails. I have added some new links and publisher links and I have reviewed a website.

Tuesday 9th November - And another excel file has been uploaded, to detail all the new poetry I am adding online right now. You can download it here. The new poetry will be on the members new poetry page by the end of the day. I am also working on a file ready for judging the txt poetry competition as part of the Word & Book Festival, which will be available as a free pdf ebook online shortly. I am working with John Barclay, Poole Poet for the Poole Word and Book Festival 2004, to create some spoken word poetry events locally and eventually a book and cd of performance poetry. The members' area now has a feedback feature called Feedback Alley. See the members' homepage for details. I am working on a new ebook by and forpeople who have suffered any kind of mental health problem. More details on the access page.

Sunday 8th November - I have uploaded another excel file for the titles index. I have updated the poetry polls poll 1 and poll 2. If you can't see the changes, try exchanging the "www" part of the web address for "nocache" instead. I am having incoming email problems again today. I have updated my own website today and there's an ebook on there to read in draft form but be warned, it's a bit wild in places! Winners of polls 3 and 4 are shown below.

Saturday 7th November - I have had to postpone the Anthology 3 launch, if you did not receive an email (some were returned from over-quota mailboxes) please download the word document here. I have uploaded a new accomplishments to date document for you to download. I have uploaded a new excel file for the titles index. The members' area has some new poetry in it and it has now been formatted.

Sunday 31st October - I have added some new poetry and will refill the members' area new poetry page tomorrow.

Saturday 30th October - I have been working on the members' area profiles today. There are several new ones there now. I have added some poetry to the Members' area. I have sent some pictures to Colin so that he can add them to the gallery on the main site. Delivered 2 more DVDs to participants in the From Shanty to Rap Project. (half term is over! hooray! it's hard to update the site with at least two full rock bands rehearsing in the house!)

Friday 29th October - There is a new link and an example of an Ode on the Poetic Forms Page today. I have added some new Publishing Links and some new general Links. There are some new FORUM messages. I am having problems with incoming mail at times.

Thursday 28th October - The theme for October is online now. I went to a local day centre today to deliver the DVDs that were made as part of Poole Word & Book Festival.

Wednesday 27th October - AMP today. New images are online at the AMP website.

Sunday 24th October - The polls are now complete and in place. Family visiting set me back, so apologies for the day where the polls weren't visible.

Friday 22nd October - Site update for the polls. I have updated the residency pages for Clive, Karin and Richard.

Wednesday 20th October - AMP today. We had a visit from some music arts managers from the borough to see if they could help us with extra venues for practice sessions. We shared a box of chocs to celebrate the award and everyone signed the T-shirts. We will frame them and give one to Roger and save one for the permanent premises, when we get them. Clive kindly went through the budget again and made a phase 1 and 2 to accommodate the 50/50 split in the funding, which will come in December and March.

Monday 18th October - We went to Birmingham to the Unltd. offices to attend an awards day for our Millennium Award for AMP. There were so many innovative projects and intersting ideas coming from some very lively people!

Friday 15th October - Planned some press for AMP. Updated the AMP website. Working on a joint arts project for Karin and myself for art and poetry in a nursing home for elderly people in Poole. This will take place in November.

Thursday 14th October - I have added a press release about AMP's Award Day on Monday. I have also updated the AMP website and sent out many promotional emails about the project. Clive has sweetly been working really hard on the technical requirements of the project. Colin has been kind enough to put right the problems I caused on Tom's wedding pages (sorry!).

Tuesday 13th October - Working on access to arts events in Poole by way of a matinee club with transport to give isolated members of the community the chance to socialise in a club for attending arts events. Meeting about that shortly. Please email me if you live in Poole and would like access to more arts events with transport. ISBN numbers arrived for the new projects in the pipeline.

Monday 12th October - It's the last day of Poole Word & Book Festival 2004 today. The art exhibition comes down tomorrow and then I can start catching up online!

Sunday 11th October - Edible books festival today (many thanks to Ottakars for helping us out at the last minute when our original venue was under construction!)

Saturday 10th October - Tom Moore got married today! We held our second poetry slam as well! Congratulations to Janice! Sue Whitmarsh presented Maria Onyango with her trophy for winning the Whitmarsh Prize this evening. Well done, Maria! Maria also wowed us with her poetry by taking part in the slam.

Friday 8th October - I worked on some figures for the AMP project with Clive this evening, in preparation for our Millennium Award presentation on the 18th October.

Thursday 7th October - I went to meet some of the writers at the Study Gallery to have a look at the DVD project on display there. Ottakars poetry competition results party was great fun!

Wednesday 6th October - We introduced Nii Parkes tonight at the King Charles - great event room and fabulous performance.

Tuesday 5th October - The subscription price has raised a little to allow for us to improve the magazine and progress to perfect binding. If you are due to subscribe, please check the new prices on the subscription page. Many thanks to all of you who have renewed their subscription as this is our main source of income.

Monday 4th October - Today the gallery exhibition goes up for Rufus Dawson at the Study Gallery - the From Shanty to Rap should be on display soon on the top floor. This afternoon, Les Merton is going to be entertaining the staff and visitors to Fourways in Poole with his dialect, comedy and poetry. This evening Les Merton and Paul Taylor are going to be at the Lighthouse Studio for their Big Night Out, as Les completes his World Tour of Poole. We donated two signed books from Elizabeth Kay to Branksome Heath Middle School, one for the library and one for a competition for the children. Les and Paul's Big Night out was top quality entertainment - very educational too! :-)

Sunday 3rd October - We took a day off from the festival today and spent the day travelling around the area with Pete Nightingale and Les Merton. We did some paperwork for the festival with feedback forms.

Saturday 2nd October - Today we took Les Merton around Poole Day Centre and Mitchell House to entertain everyone with his particular brand of humour. This evening we helped Ottakars out by selling their books after the Regina Monologues at the Lighthouse Studio. We also went to see the opening of the Michael Kenny exhbition at the Study Gallery.

Friday 1st October - We showed Rufus's work to the Study Gallery today and Elizabeth Kay signed books at Poole Ottakars this afternoon from 3 to 6 pm. Elizabeth donated work to our Listening anthology and is the successful author of the teenage fantasy novel The Divide. Rufus's paintings will be on display on the third floor of the study gallery from Monday 4th October to 11th October. There are some new links on the links page.

Thursday 30th September - Poetry elections went well last night and John Barclay is our new Festival Poet in Residence. John is a captivating performer, he won our poetry slam last year and will make an excellent poet for the festival. Today I have uploaded a new titles index, waded through paperwork, promoted the festival events to the university, Colin has uploaded the new members' area on a new url and I have emailed all current members with that new url. If you think you are a current member and I have not emailed you the new url, please let me know.

Wedneday 29th September - Poetry Elections this evening and AMP today! I have uploaded a gallery poster for Rufus Dawson and a gallery poster for Oliver Curran.

Tuesday 28th September - I have updated the events page and I have just comepleted both of the poetry polls. I am also completing Anthology 3 and our poetry walks publication for typesetting. Work is still ongoing for Alan Corkish's Glimpses of Notes and for Andrew Taylor's Cathedral Poems. I collected Rufus Dawson's art for the exhibition and completed the new poetry page.