Under the Dome Festival: a success!
Seems like everyone enjoyed Under the Dome Festival. Something for everyone: children, music lovers, admirers of poetry and theatre goers. There was a photographer at all events and his images…
Seems like everyone enjoyed Under the Dome Festival. Something for everyone: children, music lovers, admirers of poetry and theatre goers. There was a photographer at all events and his images…
Just back from the launch event for North Tyneside Steam subtitled A celebration of the bicentenary of the steam locomotive Blucher, together with the story of its creator George Stephenson…
What a delight to perform in the Spanish City Dome’s ballroom last night as part of the Under the Dome Festival which runs until the 27th of July http://www.under-the-dome.org/ I…
Happy Planet Creative Arts are reopening after a short break with social crafting on Wednesday 23rd July. http://www.happyplanetcreativearts.org.uk/ My next poetry appreciation evening hosted by Happy Planet will take place…
My collaboration with artist Anne Proctor is precious. Neither of us know why it works or how long it will last. We have been working together for over 18 months…
Joseph Skipsey’s poems are part of North East England’s cultural heritage. This coal miner from Percy Main wrote amazing poems including The Hartley Calamity and The Collier Lad. He started…
I started the week well with a mid-morning visit to Cramlington Writers’ Group. I had a fantastic, enlightening, enjoyable time with nine other writers and several packets of biscuits. The…
Just back from another poetry appreciation evening in The Mission, North Shields. We listened to each other read and then discussed poems by writers including A.P Herbert, Edwin Morgan, Stevie…
Ted Hughes, Henry Lawson, Hilaire Belloc, Mary Oliver, PB Shelley, Ian McMillan, ee cummings…just some of the poets read aloud and appreciated this evening by a group of like-minded souls….
Yesterday I caught the last night at The Customs House, South Shields of Kirsten Luckins’ touring….what to call it? Poetic one woman play, spoken musical, acted stanzas? I’m struggling to…