Alex Ramsay – photographer; Liz Lefroy – poet OS (BONES) at Workhouse Gallery, Presteigne LD8 2UF (01544 267 8640) 11 am, Monday 25th August (lasts about an hour) £6 as part of the Presteigne Festival ……..from their website: Os Poetry and Photography This year’s Workhouse Gallery exhibition features prints from Os, […]
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Nadia Kingsley, David Calcutt, Through the Woods – at Ted Hughes Festival 2014
I have known for a few months that David and I will be performing at this year’s Ted Hughes festival that runs October 24 to 26th, 2014. But this morning I heard that the festival programme is now on the internet: http://www.theelmettrust.org/festival—saturday-events I am so excited. I love performing next to David. He has […]
Narrative Poetry – Adam Foulds , The Broken Word
I have just spent 12 days in Italy, and I immersed myself in narrative poetry – there was one that made me question why they or their publisher had decided to describe it as poetry, albeit prose poetry and it made me wonder…. I have listened to radio discussions, read books – all discussing what […]
Death, Life and Poetry
When my Mum died in September I felt an intense urgency to work on a poem that I had written the month before. I had to do it, but I was rather concerned about my behaviour, and thought maybe I was avoiding thinking about ‘things’ … but when, and only when I had finished the […]
The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber – a Novel in Verse…
I came to this book reluctantly,ready to do “homework” – as Ros Barber will be one of two poets mentoring on an Arvon course I’ll soon be attending. I was put off by its bulk, its dry cover, the “Dramatis Personae” – listing the characters I was about to meet – as I say – […]
through the woods – in the Poetry Book Society magazine
From PBS Bulletin: Summer 14
facebook: is it like marmite?
My sense of time has greatly altered in the last ten days – since my watch battery died. I am rather enjoying my un-manacled wrist. Somehow I feel I have more time, these days. So I have been filling it with facebook. I kept away from it for years. Then I signed up last […]
The first day of the rest of my blogging life
I know. It may look like there are previous ‘posts’ but, thanks to William Gallagher www.theblankscreen.co.uk I now have a proper blogging page … I have found my Grail. “So. Just to recap” he softly said, just yesterday, ” You no longer have those 200 thousand spam comments on the website, you have a plug-in to […]
The Blogging Tour
4.3.14 I have just been asked to be part of “the bloggers tour”. Wonderful ! And I have been meaning to have a blog too! I have also been meaning to improve the fair acre press website, so I have decided to create this makeshift blog page, until I have sorted the whole website out. Nadia 13.3.14 […]
Performances 2013
ROAD KILL PERFORMANCES IN 2013: These are the confirmed dates- see below. I will add more in the future. I do hope we will meet at one of these venues! Entrance is free, unless indicated otherwise. REVIEWS OF ROAD KILL PERFORMANCES: www.garylongden.wordpress.com BILSTON VOICES April 2013 The headliners, and second […]