Nottingham Poetry Festival
Lost Nottingham: Charlie and the Lace Factory
CHARLIE AND THE LACE FACTORY Monday 4th May 1904, Grand Theatre Radford Road, Hyson Green Evening performance of Sherlock Holmes over, Charles Chaplin aged 15 Collar askew from a swift costume change leaves Billie the page boy behind And cheekily slaps the final drop curtain just below King Charles head The sun-light overhead…
Burning Books – hiding in plain view?
Last year I did a reading for Nottingham Poetry Festival in which I produced a small ‘polemical’ pamphlet called ‘Burning Books’. The pamphlet was a one off and most of the poems after ‘outing’ in paper form were then hidden away as ‘too political’ for my readers by myself! I censored myself which crazy but…
Burning Books: Horseshoe Press Mini Pamphlet No.1
The Horseshoe Press http://www.horseshoepress.co.uk is my self-publishing of poetry website. The latest ‘Mini Pamphlet’ is ‘Burning Books’ published to coincide with Theresa May’s attempt to drive this country even further to the right…. Eight poems about politics, books and poetry to be given away free at the Jermy and Westerman reading on Wednesday 26th…
Poetry Reading at Jermy and Westerman for Nottingham Poetry Festival
Reading with one of my favourite poets at my favourite bookshop Jermy and Westerman on Mansfield Road as part of Nottingham Poetry Festival in April.
Well I Never….until now…..chocks away Henry..
The past two weeks have been both liberating and slightly scary. Having jumped ship so to speak from the Cruise liner NTU ( currently headed for Corporate Tax Haven Islands with a monetising Captain whilst flying a pure blue Tory ensign) I have had a few days to ponder what next… I currently have two…