HeyJaredtend notes
tend notes explores creativity, culture, writing and reflective practice.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Sep 15, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 22, 2026
Latest issues
Writing in the third voice (opens the original)
Read excerpt
A couple of months ago I did a course called Living Material led by a writer called Stevie Mackenzie-Smith, all about using the material you already have to refresh your practice and keep going. In one of the sessions in this course, we took inspiration from Mary Karr’s formulation of a ‘quiet noticing self’ from The Art of Memoir. Stevie offered an exercise in which we looked back at a text we’d been working on with this kindly attention.1Undertaking this exercise, I n
Join my new 10-week course and write bold new poems from visual art (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Hello lovely reader, I’m popping into your inbox today to share an upcoming opportunity for us to write together. You’re invited to join my new ten-week course, coming this autumn!The course is called “Beyond Ekphrasis: Encounters with Poetry and Visual Art” and it runs online from 8th October via the Poetry School. *(see Ekphrasis below)In the course, we’ll look closer at the act of looking, consider how we position ourselves in relation to a work of art, and test out a rang
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.