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Review: Assembly Lines by Jane Commane
Ledbury Poetry Festival is huge. I managed to get to a small fraction of events but, of those I went to, my stand-out single poem of the festival this year was Jane Commane’s UnWeather from her collection Assembly Lines … Continue reading
Summer scenes
Words on Water with Worcester Lit Fest: a beautiful evening for a gentle walk along the Severn with poetry interludes. Ledbury Festival: glorious as always and so much happening I didn’t manage to even take many photos. On the … Continue reading
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Tagged folks from the slopes, ledbury poetry festival, words on water
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Poetry on request
A couple of weeks’ ago I was invited to do some poetry for the audience of a showing of Paterson at Hereford Courtyard. Ledbury Poetry Festival brought three of us to chat to film-goers and create on-the-spot poems on whatever … Continue reading
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Tagged brenda read-brown, ledbury poetry festival, paterson, phillippa slinger
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Move along
It’s been a strange six months since I last blogged. Apologies if you’ve missed my ramblings here. (Alternatively, apologies if you were delighted by my absence, bad luck: I’m back.) In brief: Ledbury Poetry Festival was, as always, wonderful. Look … Continue reading
A stitchwort shift, a bluebell shawl
Been far too long since I blogged: life’s been busy and I’ve been concentrating on fitting in poetry writing when I can – mostly inspired by Jo Bell’s ongoing 52 project. 52 has kicked my poetry up a gear (well, … Continue reading
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Tagged 52, bluebells, cwmmy crab, jennifer mcgowan, ledbury poetry festival, old hollow, paul henry, poetry orchard, spoon river anthology, stitchwort
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MWC at Ledbury and Malvern Civic Week
Asked to compère the MWC event for Ledbury Poetry Festival for a second year; a great honour to be introducing a selection of our talented members and friends at the lovely Seven Stars pub. This year it was a much … Continue reading
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Tagged jacob polley, leanne o'sullivan, ledbury poetry festival
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John Xzavian’s Organ
Finished Ledbury Festival a couple of weeks ago; now also finished overtime plus overtime stint and, subsequently, novel draft. Polishing up a synopsis and all the sundry nerve-wracking bits as I contemplate subbing it. So at last I now have … Continue reading
‘LinkedIn Sizzle Reel CV’ and other joys
Blog has been utterly neglected BUT only because I’ve been busy doing *stuff*: Poetry stuff includes having one of my recent found and now favourite performance poems published by Ink, Sweat and Tears. (Search ‘Myfanwy Fox’ on the site and … Continue reading
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Tagged foxgloves, ink sweat and tears, ledbury poetry festival, lesley ingram, malvern hills, north hill
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Displacement Activity
I was exhausted after two consecutive nights poet-ing and a day out on Friday itself; so my last post was brief and, perhaps (“perhaps” again?!) misleading; so today, instead of proper work, here’s an update (displacement activity): I first read … Continue reading