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Alice Oswald withdraws from TS Eliot Poetry Prize
Alice Oswald has withdrawn her name from this year’s shortlist for the TS Eliot prize for poetry. After losing its Arts Council funding this year, the Poetry Book Society, which manages the prestigious prize, announced a three year sponsorship from … Continue reading
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The Case For Children’s Poetry
I was lucky enough to see the legendary Michael Rosen perform at the South Bank on National Poetry Day, to the squeals and shouts of delight of the children sat on the floor at the very front of the stage in the Royal … Continue reading
Poetry in the News
Here are two stories in yesterday’s G2 section of the Guardian newspaper. The first is an interview with the remarkable Alice Oswald, whose obsession with Homer’s Iliad she has now rewritten as ‘Memorial’, and is published by Faber. Read the … Continue reading
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Manipura Five
Laugh At yourself We are all ridiculous. Isn’t it time to relax? Stop wanting it so badly, It’s too late for that. You forget your privilege. Everyone has to Shoulder a burden. Yours ain’t so bad. Bang Bang The Messenger … Continue reading
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Who told you?
Can’t! Shan’t! Ought! Must! They can go whistle…
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Evidently John Cooper Clarke
My review of John Cooper Clarke’s recent gig at The Rose Theatre is here at The Richmond & Twickenham Times. Here is the Great Man performing Beasley Street and the post Lozza Llewelyn Bowen visit update Beasley Boulevard
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“London: City of Surveillance” Iain Sinclair in conversation
“Surveillance abuses the past while fragmenting the present.” 150,000 cameras watch London, at all heights, all angles. “The city is eyes, the city is an organic identity watching itself”, according to Iain Sinclair. Sinclair, psychogeographer, poet and writer is in … Continue reading
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