I’m not spending a great deal of time at the computer at the moment – can only blame the marvellous good weather! I’m in admiration of those taking […]
A smooth drive to London yesterday for Anne-Marie Fyfe’s newest workshop, on the theme of clouds. As in ‘I wandered lonely as…’, or […]
Getting to and from London from the south coast is ten times harder than it used to be these days, as the rail company […]
A name you’ll have come across often in the poetry magazines is Louise Ordish. She is a talented poet who has had a […]
Claire Dyer is a fine poet and novelist who I first met at a launch reading for The Interpreter’s House. She seems to be […]
When Tim Dawes came to Lewes just a few months ago to talk about his plans for a South Downs Poetry Festival, I […]
I was one of those lucky people who enjoyed school, and whose English teachers (and I will name them, by way of a […]
[…] Outside each propelling constellation but inside that feeling of boat. It demands and bruises, cuts pride, hardens stomachs. […] (‘That Feeling of […]
I am singing for a funeral next week, in a quartet – and although these are sad occasions, it is wonderful to be […]
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