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…
Matsuo Bashō’s Haiku, William Carlos Williams’ Imagist classics plus poems by Ellen Phethean, Craig Charles, Sylvia Plath, Liz Lochhead, Charles Causley and more. Tonight’s Poetry with Friends at the Mission…
Poetry & Music at the Coast this weekend Free as a Bard returns to Whitley Bay’s Jam Jar Cinema this Sunday 28th September with poets Ellen Phethean and Kirsten Luckins…
The Poetry Exchange: nominate a poem that has been a friend to you The Poetry Exchange celebrates the idea of poems as friends. Producer Bridget Floyer explains: ‘Through live events,…
Happy Planet Creative Arts CIC Community Arts Exhibition & Open Day Our exhibition to show you what we offer is at Whitley Bay Library Monday 22nd Sept – Friday 26th…
Fourteen poems discussed, full moon admired from window and coffee cake shared. It could only be….Poetry with Friends at The Mission! Tonight’s theme was Encounters which resulted in a range…
Rats! I hate cancelling gigs but I’ve had to slice a performance scheduled for Friday morning out of my diary. These things ‘appen. I was meant to be joining other…
