Emma Purshouse is one of those people I, and so many others, COMPLETELY admire and can rely on one hundred per cent. So when I was working out who I would like Paul Kielty and I to receive specialist training from – to prepare us ahead of giving our own Painting By Pixels workshops at […]
Poetry festival plus music and art! April 21 – 22, Mid Wales
I do hope you will join us at Mid Wales Arts Centre in Caersws, near Newtown – for some of the poetry music and art events I have organised there the weekend of April 21 and 22, 2018 All the details are here – if you click on this sentence Menna Elfyn, Robert Minhinnick, Gill […]
Beyond Spring in Guardian’s Travel supplement and Guardian bookshop
Here is the article from Saturday’s Guardian Travel supplement – minus, apologies, their magnificent pictures – but with the Beyond Spring front and back covers to compensate! Hopefully spring really is around the corner now! Nadia x More seasonal walks in Britain, chosen by Matthew Oates from The Guardian Travel Saturday, March 17th 2018 ‘Spring […]
Robert Minhinnick at Inspired in Caersws
After I read Diary of the Last Man, almost a year ago I so wanted to hear Robert Minhinnick read – I suggested to Cathy Knapp at Mid Wales Arts Centre that the poetry afternoon I was organising could be upgraded into a festival. As 2018 is the tenth anniversary of Cathy setting up Mid […]
Thanks and Congrats to the Winners!!
The results for the BBC Countryfile magazine awards are in.. You can read them here Thank you everyone who voted for Matthew Oates’ Beyond Spring to be Country Book of the Year! It wasn’t to be – and I don’t think any of us were expecting it to carry off this coveted award – as […]
Details of Inspired in Caersws Festival!! APRIL 21 – 22
WHAT? A poetry, music and art festival – co-hosted by Fair Acre Press with Mid Wales Arts WHEN? 21 – 22 April 2018 WHERE? Mid Wales Arts, Maesmawr, Caersws, Newtown SY17 5SB It is, if coming from Newtown, on the right – directly off the A470 and just after you […]
Beyond Spring review in TLS
An extract from a review in the Times Literary Supplement today! Matthew sent me a photo from the review and I have transcribed parts below… Nadia x Matthew Oates, by contrast, is a fully authentic naturalist who is scarcely packaged at all. His book consists in a series of wonderful effusions – about places, […]
Vote?! for DIVERSIFLY & #MeToo – Saboteur Award nominations open
If you like DIVERSIFLY and/or #METOO poetry anthology you may want to consider voting for them.. It seems to me they would both fit in the Best Anthology Category A collection of works by more than one author, not restricted by genre, theme or form. This could be a combination of fiction and […]
MeToo, Deborah Alma, Mona Arshi on Radio 4’s Front Row
If you missed it, here is the iplayer link to BBC Radio 4 Front Row last night – with #MeToo Poetry anthology, its editor Deborah Alma; with poet and Human rights lawyer Mona Arshi; talking about the #MeToo poetry anthology book – and reading 2 of its poems. If you know of a women’s refuge or […]
Last chance to #VoteOates!!
Hi everyone! The BBC Countryfile magazine awards voting system CLOSES on 5th March! Perhaps you are snowed in or just need to be reminded of spring? If so read here a free sample PDF of the book For details, endorsements, reviews of the book go here If you like what you read please vote BEYOND […]
