Sharing Secrets
A new face, a newish face and a few familiar faces sat around the table in Whitley Bay library today for Poetry with Friends. The theme was Secrets which led…
A new face, a newish face and a few familiar faces sat around the table in Whitley Bay library today for Poetry with Friends. The theme was Secrets which led…
London called so I paid a visit this weekend. The capital and I are old friends. I visit whenever I am summoned. I took the opportunity to visit The Institution…
Full house and almost full moon at The Mission tonight. Poetry with Friends kicked off not with poems but Gail’s delicious homemade broth and stotties and baguette from Pat and…
Pear flavoured marshmallows from Gareth James, the chocolatier in Tynemouth were sampled during this morning’s Poetry with Friends session at Whitley Bay Library. The jury is still out on the…
The inaugural Newcastle Photography Festival is taking place this week until Sunday 26th. The festival was inspired by the considerable achievements of local legend, Joseph Swan. Tonight a play by…
‘The Mind’ and ‘Humour’ were the themes explored in today’s Poetry with Friends @ Whitley Bay Library. Poetry by Robert Browning, Jean Sprackland, Spike Milligan, Carol Ann Duffy, John Clare,…
The final weekend of Mima’s Louise Bourgeois retrospective is celebrated tomorrow, Saturday 11th October by North East women poets. Local poets in collaboration with local theatre company Precious Cargo have devised…
What links Groucho Marx and Alice Walker? Why, croquet of course! It’s amazing what you can learn at a Poetry with Friends session. Tonight’s Poetry with Friends at The Mission…
I celebrated National Poetry Day by chairing a brand new Poetry with Friends meeting in Whitley Bay library. The session, run by Happy Planet Creative Arts CIC http://www.happyplanetcreativearts.org.uk/ was fun….
I’m delighted to be involved in the inaugural Newcastle Photography Festival which takes place next month. Subtitled “A celebration of photography inspired by Joseph Swan and his adventures with carbon, collodion…