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Mags & Blogs/ 11/07/2012

Ambit at the Betsey Trotwood

Took Lucy along to an Ambit poetry night yesterday at the Betsey Trotwood pub, a little island of old London tahn amidst the […]

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Poet's Tips/ 05/07/2012

Don Paterson interviewed by Maitreyabandhu

Don Paterson from Poetry East on Vimeo.

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Uncategorized/ 04/07/2012

Poems from the Old Hill

Jeremy Page at the Frogmore Press is producing an anthology of work by poets who live in Lewes called ‘Poems from the Old […]

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Mags & Blogs/ 03/07/2012

At the Plastic Bag Museum

these are the things that carried the stuff that people bought see those loops for hands – handles they’re called naturally they never […]

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Mags & Blogs/ 02/07/2012

Bumper latest news

Lots been happening lately. Firstly, my good friend and very talented poet Charlotte Gann was shortlisted for the Michael Marks pamphlet award. Although […]

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Mags & Blogs/ 12/06/2012

Hurrah! The Rialto takes another

So excited to have had a poem accepted for The Rialto. The first poem I had published was in this magazine (Rialto 70, Autumn […]

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Uncategorized/ 11/06/2012

Charleston Festival

It’s an annual ritual shared with an old schoolfriend. Charleston (Literary) Festival, at the end of May, takes place in the farmhouse once […]

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Mags & Blogs/ 10/06/2012

Back

I haven’t posted here in a while, I actually took the blog ‘private’ for a few months, after a conversation with Catherine Smith […]

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Mags & Blogs/ 06/04/2012

When my sister is old

I will wait at the door with flowers if she greets me at all it will be brief and cold as the Guildford […]

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Mags & Blogs/ 04/03/2012

Invasion

It took three rows of barbed wire coiled round stakes, hammered at angles into sand and shingle. The beach packed and leaking like […]

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