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 […]
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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 […]
At Wenlock Poetry Festival 2012
Shropshire Butterflies! Enjoy a group performance from the book Shropshire Butterflies – a poetic and artistic guide to the butterflies of Shropshire Katherine Swift, Roger Garfitt, Alwyn Marriage, Keith Chandler, Nick Pearson, Tom Wentworth, Nadia Kingsley, Paul Francis, Charles Worth, Emma Purshouse, Matthew Oates and Mario Petrucci are uniting to celebrate the butterflies found […]
Butterfly & Poetry Walk
On 24th July, from 2pm to about 4pm there will be a butterfly and poetry walk through the Dudmaston Hall grounds, guided by local butterfly expert Adrian Miles. Paul Francis and Nadia Kingsley will read poems from the book ‘Shropshire Butterflies’ – about the butterfly species that we meet along the way. Please contact Dudmaston Hall […]
