Category Archives: Poetry

Bl1p

Was chuffed to see that Bl1p has put my poem up on their site. Thanks guys

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Time at the Fitz: Dr Winifred Lamb and the Shahnameh

Darkness creeps in at four o’clock everyday and I really wouldn’t mind hibernating around about now. Yoga was tough on Monday evening – fun at the time but afterwards the aches kick in! We had a new teacher – Paula … Continue reading

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Discovering John Clare at the Festival of Ideas 2010

The Festival of Ideas started on Wednesday and I started off well by going to a lecture on poetry that very evening. It’s always so much easier to understand a poem when someone else has done all the research for … Continue reading

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Celebration of ideas in Cambridge

Cambridge is beautiful in the autumn and it seems to be speeding by in a whirl of work and cycling. We’ve had a stream of visitors to Cambridge and have been on adventures around the city and up to the … Continue reading

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Not Waving But Drowning

I was just reading Stevie Smith’s poem Not Waving But Drowning. You can hear Stevie Smith talking about and reading the poem on the poetry archive. The poem is a thoughtful comment on the pretence of life and perhaps a … Continue reading

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