Three readings, one in Reading, and a private view

April 14, 2012

Many thanks for birthday greetings, etc.We have weathered another one, and there was a post I was going to put up and never had a chance – for reasons that may be clearer once you have read the following. All greetings and messages were highly appreciated, however! It was a bit Alzheimeresque, but some very [...]

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Arise, Aries, and keep going

April 8, 2012

Well, happy Easter, everyone. Crazy days in Maison Baroque: the year a quarter gone! and still trying to deal with the cataclysms of January and February: where did it all go? New life, fresh start – ‘Here comes your 19th reinvention’ – and now the birthday season is upon us, and it all feels slightly [...]

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April 5: guillotine day

April 5, 2012

It’s also National Poetry (aka ‘the cruelest’) Month,  on both sides of the Atlantic – but more of that later. Right now it’s the anniversaire of the death of Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, and a parcel of other moderate revolutionaries in France, in 1794. One of them was the beautifully named Fabre d’Eglantine, who was [...]

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Alzheimer’s update: horror story de nos jours

April 3, 2012

I’m like James James Morrison Morrison’s mother. I thought I was going to go to Alzheimer’s Central and then go do some work in town. But Alzheimers takes longer than that. At least, our kind does. First there was the fellow doing the risk assessment for the new agency. He had about 20 pages of [...]

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Adventures in form, among others

March 31, 2012

This is just some of the poetry publications that have arrived in Baroque Mansions over the last week or so. Let me say, they are a gorgeous lot, but it’s been one of the busiest weeks I can remember having in living memory, so I’ve barely cracked them. Following all the excitement, preparations and general [...]

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Diving into the wreck

March 29, 2012

Well it’s after 2am and I just got in from a fabulous poetry evening with my Poetry Society hat on at the awards ceremony of the National Poetry Competition – and the Ted Hughes Award – two in one, and it was a great evening. Allison McVety won the National with a layered, structurally integrated [...]

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in the spirit of Orwell

March 28, 2012

I am very (and I mean VERY) pleased to announce that Baroque in Hackney has just been longlisted for this year’s Orwell Prize for political writing. Here, because I’m short of time today, is a raw list of the posts I entered for the judges to read. And here’s the link to the whole longlist. [...]

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It’s that time again! Poetry workshop this Saturday.

March 26, 2012

The joys of spring! The workshop is Reborn! And there are still spaces, kiss them as they fly… Here’s the info on my 2012 Saturday workshops, including this one. Get in touch! Look around you. Things are beginning to grow again. What does that mean for us? In this REBIRTH workshop (part 2 of the [...]

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