It seems to be the thing at the moment when it comes to ‘picking a name out of the hat’ to make a wee film…
Poetry
It seems to be the thing at the moment when it comes to ‘picking a name out of the hat’ to make a wee film…
I’m back from an (almost) flying trip to Liverpool, a city about 300 miles north of where I live, for a five minute poetry reading…
I was recently asked to select some readings to go in between the movements of a choral piece. The piece is Bob Chilcott’s On Christmas…
Sorry about the title of this post – no, wait – never apologise! As I wrote it I was thinking ‘Hugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert,…
Bit of a roundup post. Last Tuesday evening at West Greenwich Library I got to hear some super poems inspired by the Mary Evans Picture…
As usual I’m a bit late to the party on a few things, namely Ocean Vuong, whose Forward-winning collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Cape)…
There’s been a flurry of poetry events lately and lovely things happening. Hastings Stanza reading A couple of weeks back the Hastings Poetry Stanza had…
It’s the longest day of the year here, and the hottest. I love these long days and warm evenings and we’ve been making the most…
To be fair, I did have a seat for the first half, but with the sciatica playing up I was happy to stand for the…