2014 seems to have been a year of upheaval and uprising, of extreme highs and lows, tragedies and atrocities, of revelations great and terrible. Natural and/or man-made disasters dominated local and global news. Planes fell from the skies, flood-waters rose, diseases flourished, people around the world were killed for being who they were where theyContinue reading “The Old Year is Dead”
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In Flanders.
Next week I’ll be visiting the magnificent Eireann Lorsung of Miel, and facilitating a workshop, and giving a reading and a Q&A at the University of Ghent.
What Would Wordsworth Do/Walking With Wordsworth Daily
When I first came to Grasmere, or rather, to Town End, as a volunteer at the Wordsworth Trust, the other young volunteers had been busy asking themselves ‘What Would Wordsworth Do?’ and meditating on the practice of ‘Walking with Wordsworth Daily.’ These became things I often thought on, especially on those short dark Winter afternoonsContinue reading “What Would Wordsworth Do/Walking With Wordsworth Daily”
Equinoctial
It’s just that time of year when we push ourselves ahead, we push ourselves ahead. (Dar Williams, ‘The End of the Summer’) Autumn equinox will be reached in the early hours of Tuesday 23rd September. 2.29 am GMT. A good point from which to reconsider both the season past, and the season arriving. I’m travellingContinue reading “Equinoctial”
Not ideas about the thing.
I’ve had a strange and wonderful few weeks, so strange and wonderful I hardly know what to write about it. Last month I found out I’d won New Writing North’s Andrew Waterhouse Prize – a development prize awarded in the memory of the poet Andrew Waterhouse, for a selection of poems which ‘reflect a strongContinue reading “Not ideas about the thing.”
Shadow Dispatches 