Two workshops in one week
I’m involved in two writing workshops in the next week. This coming Saturday 3rd December I’m helping out at Jennifer C Wilson’s afternoon workshop in Whitley Bay library. It’s called…
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pARTners exhibition
Last week the Office for National Statistics announced that dementia is now the commonest cause of death in England in Wales. The Guardian newspaper reported that dementia will affect one…
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With and Without Friends
Poetry with Friends is the poetry appreciation with a difference group I attempt to co-parent with artist Gail Curry from Happy Planet Creative Arts CIC. I say “attempt” because Poetry…
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I, Daniel Blake
In the past week I’ve discovered that not one but two bods of my acquaintance used to work with Dave Johns. It won’t be long before I won’t need to…
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Flying solo…
Renaissance Man is alive and well and living in Middlesbrough. Check out the first solo exhibition by poet, editor, historian and artist, p.a. morbid
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The Lifeboat Station Project
I’ve spent the past week trying to make The Newcastle Photography Festival run smoothly. I wasn’t alone, of course! I was assisting festival organiser Paul and his right hand man,…
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The Romance of Photography
“Never again!” I harumphed as I walked out of the Literary and Philosophical Society on Newcastle’s Westgate Road. It was a Monday evening in October 2014 and I was involved…
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Talking Nonsense
My earliest poetic loves are what I now know to be comic and so-called nonsense verse. Examples include Edward Lear, Spike Milligan, most nursery rhymes plus Pam Ayres, Stevie Smith…
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Poetic messages
Today is the 22nd National Poetry Day and I marked it by running a poetry appreciation in a North Tyneside park. Northumberland Park, nestled between North Shields and Tynemouth, is…
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Dreamy Theme
I woke up this morning cursing Sir Cliff Richard. Again. It’s the fifth morning in a row I’ve woken up with his 1961 song Theme for a Dream in my…