Month: June 2025
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Andrew Taylor – Four Poems
Small Glass Pouring Light Shake the frost freewide river view to shoreroad noise anticipationof the carrier’s cart loadedwith news & print Bright star above the baybeautiful & simpleendlessly revealing Arctic Drone Winter keeper on watchthe map line of eternal ice Hot Soup Time Machine From afar welcoming window candle litwith the dark drops the dew…
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ALFRED BRENDEL (1931-2025)
An Appreciation by Neil Fulwood How to describe Alfred Brendel? As a pianist, obviously – one of the greatest concert pianists who ever lived. A musician of immense talent and versatility.But also: a poet, essayist, cartoonist; a lover of art; a man who identified completely with the Dadaist movement.But also: a scholar, a teacher, a…
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How Not to be a Poet: Shaun Belcher
How not to be a poet…
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GRETA THUNBERG: A poem by Anthony Owen
TWTWTW : Topical Poems classed as That Was The Week That Was GRETA THUNBERG If only you were a rock starshouting free PalestineCrowd-surfing a flotilla of handsbut you never showed us your fleshWhen you wept for unfashionable fleshAnd you look autistic how dare you You stole their dreams. Antony Owen https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/6/8/who-is-madleen-the-woman-for-whom-the-aid-ship-approaching-gaza-is-named
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DEFENCE: Poem by Neil Fulwood
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/6/8/who-is-madleen-the-woman-for-whom-the-aid-ship-approaching-gaza-is-named
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Writing Home: Arnold Bennett, Stoke and Me – Jonathan Taylor
Jonathan Taylor “No-one ever comes to Stoke, no-one ever leaves Stoke, except for Arnold Bennett, and even he had to write about it”: when I was growing up in Stoke-on-Trent (aka the Potteries) in the 1970s and 80s, this was a saying that everyone knew. It conveyed Stoke’s insularity, its proud tradition of isolation. At…
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Maria Taylor – Three Poems
My Parents’ Wedding, July 1975 A rushed wedding, a year after the fighting.Newlywed Anna unable to finish her breakfastat the hotel. Dimitri insists she drinks upher scalding tea or they’ll miss the train. At St. Pancras, Anna sees the 9:40 pull in.She can still run away. Dimitri who wantedto leave in a hurry, grieves an…
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ELEPHANT X2 – Neil Fulwood
A TALE OF TWO ELEPHANTS: THE TROUBLES, COLUMBINE AND THE PORTRAYAL OF VIOLENCE Alan Clarke’s Elephant is a 39-minute short first broadcast on BBC2 on 25 January 1989, and arguably the starkest, most disturbing made-for-television production since Mick Jackson’s Threads five years earlier. Elephant is set during the Troubles, though no attempt is made to provide political or ideological context for…