Beauty is truth, truth beauty
Two hundred years ago this month John Keats wrote Ode on a Grecian Urn. The final lines are familiar to many, even if they don’t know the author. They run:…
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Inspired & Free
It’s official: Lyn Gardner has scrambled my brain. I’m not complaining about The Guardian’s theatre critic. In fact, I want to use this blog to thank her for freeing up…
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Meet the poets
My friend the writer and artist Gail Curry was mugged outside her shop and gallery in Whitley Bay and now stutters as a result of the ordeal. I was originally…
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Express Yourself
Do you fancy sampling a creative Smörgåsbord next weekend? Then join me at the Shipley Art Gallery on Saturday 10th February for Express Yourself, a half day filled with workshops…
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On the issue of subsidies
I feel compelled to share my friend Sandy Chadwin’s blog. What do you think about subsidies?
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You better watch out…
I met Santa Claus yesterday. Yes, he was real. How do I know? Because it was in my hometown of Felling. Santa’s always real in your childhood neighbourhood. Santa was…
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Poetry, with friends
Poetry with Friends, the poetry appreciation session with a difference has been running for over three years now. Gail Curry and I started the sessions back in summer 2014 in…
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I get by with a little help from…
Most of my friends are writers. Sorry if that sounds pretentious but it’s true. Well, it’s inevitable, innit? Especially here in Whitley Bay. There must be something in that salty…
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Words of Freedom
At last! The annual excuse to celebrate poetry returns this Thursday 28th September. It’s National Poetry Day here in the UK. It happens every year, usually in October but this…
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Visit this library
How well do you know your home town or the city closest to your home? I like to think I know my nearest city, Newcastle upon Tyne pretty well. I…
