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Two poetry evenings in the West Country
Since I last posted, I’ve been to a couple of poetry evenings. The first was at Trowbridge Civic Centre to hear the Palestinian-American poet and activist Remi Kanazi perform his work and the second was Love Night at the Poetry Cafe in Frome organised by writer and tutor Crysse Morrison. It’s a treat to attend poetry events Read more
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Living with someone who’s living with cancer
As a follow-up to my post about writing or not writing about illness and death, I wanted to put down a few thoughts about living with cancer, or, more precisely, about living with someone who is living with early-stage prostate cancer. Of course, cancer is different for each person and this post is only my Read more
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Poetry Aloud
This week I’ve been hearing as well as reading poetry. I was one of the judges of the Poetry by Heart competition at St Augustine’s Catholic College, Trowbridge, a local secondary school. Poetry by Heart is a national competition in which school pupils aged 14 – 18 learn and recite poems by heart. Schools hold Read more
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‘The Misplaced House’ reviewed at HuffPost Books
I am thrilled that Robert Peake has taken the time to review my pamphlet The Misplaced House at The Huffington Post, alongside pamphlets by Victoria Kennefick and Rosie Miles. Robert introduces the three pamphlets as follows: Poetry bears both the opportunity and responsibility to take on taboo subjects like life, love, death, and politics without Read more
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On writing/not writing about illness and death
I’ve been thinking about illness and the realm of public vs private recently. The deaths of David Bowie and Alan Rickman came as a shock to me because both men had chosen not to reveal to the general public that they had been living with cancer. There was no public announcement about their illnesses until Read more
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