This is just to say
Here’s a blog about the first, and so far, only, film I’ve seen this year – Paterson by Jim Jarmusch. My mentor-supervisor, Geri Chavis often uses film in her work – although poetry therapy, as it says on the tin, focuses on poems, we [...]
A year of reading randomly
It's beautifully brrr in Kent at the moment - still freezing at 11am with bright blue skies. Last night, I went to hear Andy Miller (who is not Andrew Miller) speak at the Reading Series at Kent Uni. He is the author of The Year of [...]
It wobbled once or twice
So much for the Christmas catch-up! The plan to blog on all the wonderful exhibitions, films, plays, walks, places, encounters, books, poetry readings, workshops, parties, concerts, gatherings, groups, insights, dreams, conversations, conferences, travels, people and other events of 2016 gave way to me stuffing the [...]
An angel whose face I couldn’t see
5th Day of Christmas Catch-Up Blog Gertrude Stein famously said of Oakland that ‘there is no there there’. The opposite applies to Canterbury – there is so much there here it can be heady at times. One of the reasons for all this there-ness is [...]
Is there anything sadder?
4th Day of Christmas Catch-Up Blog Another day, another piece of paper covered in my scribbled notes, this time from a workshop I attended at the Freud Museum with Salman Akhtar on the 20th November. This was not so much a workshop as a compelling [...]
All the images burned inside
3rd Day of Christmas Catch-Up Blog I am doing some desk archaeology, looking into the year’s pile of notebooks and pieces of paper. Near the top of the pile are notes I made during the brilliant address by Kate Clanchy at the Lapidus AGM in Bristol [...]
