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Peter Reading on posterity1 comment

Michelle wrote 3 weeks ago: “There’s no posterity to write for.  I’m writing now for mutated arthropods. … more →

Tags: Quotes, Peter Reading poet, Peter Reading quotes, Poetry & Quotes

Bright Star 20092 comments

Lady Ashley wrote 1 month ago: After Beau Brummell, it’s hard to go wrong — and Bright Star doesn’t. SPOILER WARN … more →

Tags: Reviews, Abbie Cornish, Bright Star, Ben Whishaw, John Keats, fanny brawne

Bright Star 20092 comments

Lady Ashley wrote 1 month ago: After Beau Brummell, it’s hard to go wrong — and Bright Star doesn’t. SPOILER WARN … more →

Tags: Reviews, Abbie Cornish, Bright Star, Ben Whishaw, John Keats, fanny brawne

Beau Brummell (2006)4 comments

Lady Ashley wrote 1 month ago: “There are but three great men of our age, myself, Napoleon and Brummell, but of we three, the … more →

Tags: costumes, Georgian England, Reviews, Beau Brummell, James Purefoy, Prince Regent

Jo Hemmant's The Den11 comments

Michelle wrote 1 month ago: Jo Hemmant    Jo Hemmant spent many years working as a journalist and editor and only began writing … more →

Tags: Poetry, camping poems, Childhood, Jo Hemmant, Jo Hemmant poet, Jo Hemmant's The den, Storytelling

Roy Woolley7 comments

Michelle wrote 1 month ago: Roy Woolley      Roy Woolley has had poems published in The Wolf, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review … more →

Tags: Poetry, Cretan mythology, from The Pasiphaë Treatment, Gay London Writers', greek mythology, Pasiphaë and the bull, Roy Woolley, Roy Woolley poet

Alice Oswald1 comment

Michelle wrote 2 months ago:    “Poems, like dreams, have a visible subject and an invisible one. The invisible one is the … more →

Tags: Poetry, Quotes, Alice Oswald, Alice Oswald quotes, Poetry & Quotes

Julia Copus on writing poems6 comments

Michelle wrote 3 months ago:    “Writing poems is a bit like panning for gold. You have to be prepared to sit for a long wh … more →

Tags: Poetry, Quotes, Bloodaxe Books, English radio dramatists, Julia Copus, Julia Copus quotes, new blood, Poetry & Quotes, Writing Quotes

The Poem

Annette Julia Dunlea wrote 4 months ago: http://www.thepoem.co.uk/  Welcome to The Poem web site, a taster of contemporary poetry in Britain … more →

Tags: Literary Blogs, Poetry, Irish Poets

New "Bright Star" Trailer1 comment

Lady Ashley wrote 4 months ago: Bright Star, a notable Cannes film spotlighting the romance of poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, is … more →

Simon Freedman5 comments

Michelle wrote 6 months ago:      Unfolding Simon Freedman   On the empty desk in the numb light he shreds an origami bird    Wal … more →

Tags: Poetry, Poet, Poets, Simon Freedman, unfolding, Writers, writing

Tim Wells' Rougher Yet2 comments

Michelle wrote 6 months ago:        A Ruffer Version Tim Wells   That time in Efes, when the killer strolled in, I’m sure M … more →

Tags: Books, Poetry, A Ruffer Version, Donut Press, Poet, Poetry Books, Poetry collections, Poets, Rougher Yet

Fiona Pitt-Kethley's Selected Poems3 comments

Michelle wrote 6 months ago:        Song of the Nymphomaniac Fiona Pitt-Kethley   From Baffin Bay down to Tasmania I’ve pre … more →

Tags: Books, Poetry, english writers, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Fiona Pitt-Kethley poems, journalists, novelists, Poet, Poetry Books

Tom Chivers' How to Build a City5 comments

Michelle wrote 6 months ago:        Your Name Has Been Randomly Selected Tom Chivers   Pennie Rakestraw emailed details of my ord … more →

Tags: Books, Poetry, abi curtis, book launches, How to Build a City, London poetry launches, Luke Kennard, Poet, Poetry Books

Alison Brackenbury6 comments

Michelle wrote 6 months ago:    Alison writes:   “This poem is loosely based on the life of Francesca Cuzzoni, one of Hande … more →

Tags: Poetry, Alison Brackenbury, Francesca Cuzzoni, Handel, Poet, Poets, The button factory in Bologna, Writers, writing

Ian Parks4 comments

Michelle wrote 6 months ago:     Shell Island Ian Parks The girl is tall and never thinks of food unless he brings her oysters fr … more →

Tags: Books, Poetry, ian parks, Poet, Poetry Books, Poetry collections, Poets, shell island, Waywiser Press

Angela France's Occupation and a Ledbury Poetry Festival Launch7 comments

Michelle wrote 6 months ago:     The Florist Explains Mimesis Angela France   It begins with the cut. Not secateurs, never scisso … more →

Tags: Books, Poetry, Angela France, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Ledbury Poetry Festival launches, Occupation, Patricia Wallace Jones, Poet, Poetry Books

‘Books, What a Jolly Company They Are’ – Siegfried Sassoon’s ‘Repression of War Experience’ – Quote of the Day / Maureen Corrigan

1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 6 months ago: How much comfort can books offer as the death toll rises in Iraq and Afghanistan? Maureen Corrigan r … more →

Tags: Poetry, Books, Life, Reviews, siegfried sassoon, post-traumatic stress syndrome, ptsd

Andrea Porter's A Season of Small Insanities6 comments

Michelle wrote 7 months ago:        Yield Andrea Porter   The drivers on New York arteries are blooded by the necessity of cut an … more →

Tags: Books, News, Poetry, A Season of Small Insanities, Andrea Porter, book launches, Cambridge poetry launches, Poet, Poetry Books


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