08/10/2015 · 12:09

Have you seen the ‘Light’ for National Poetry Day 2015?

How are you celebrating National Poetry Day this year? This year’s theme is LIGHT.

Search the web & you’ll come up with hundreds of events local and national.

I’ll be marking the day by finishing my ‘Wordsworth’ study, working on my own poem on the ‘light’ theme (maybe for my National Poetry Competition entry) and reading Poetry Notebook by Clive James – heartily recommended for anyone with an interest in the subject. As with all Clive James books you can hear that distinct voice that’s entertained us for decades. If I can make it, I’ll also be attending local events to mark the day.

Today would be a good day to wish Clive all the very best and a thousand thanks for giving us such pleasure.

Have a look at Poetry Day resources and check out the Poetry Society website for Poetry Day Live in London.

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21/09/2015 · 21:12

National Poetry Competition 2015 – only a few weeks left

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21/09/2015 · 20:40

Where have I been all this time?

After several weeks if not months of prevarication, I am, hopefully, getting it together.

Having attempted to struggle through a 6 week futurelearn course on ‘Reading Macondo’, which examines the work of Gabriel García Márquez’, I finally had to admit defeat this time round. Sadly, at least for those of us with only a smattering of any language other than English, the videos are all in Spanish. Even though the transcripts are bilingual it proved very hard work. Consequently I got too far behind.

I’m now in a more comfortable arena studying another furturelearn course ‘William Wordsworth: Poetry, People & Place’. This is proving no less fascinating than Macondo (which I will eventually return to). I heartily recommend anyone to look at the range of futurelearn courses – not restricted to literature by any means.

Now I’ve broken out of the mould I intend to continue this blog – at least weekly – without interruption!

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