Sent to be by Leslie. Monet refuses the Operation Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to… Continue reading Others Poems – Monet refuses the Operation
Socratic Dialogue Training Cambridge
Sixth Colloquium on Dialogical Practice and Dialogical Philosophising, St Catharine´s College, Cambridge, 6-10 August 2018 A basic background Following the dialogical procedures recorded by Plato in early dialogues of Socrates, Socratic Dialogue enables ordinary people to philosophise with the aim of enriching and informing civic life. Non specialised way of philosophising that has been furthered… Continue reading Socratic Dialogue Training Cambridge
Festivals 2018 – Buddhafield
Buddhafield July 2018 “And where is your voice from?’ a Navaho Indian returned my question to him back to me, and suddenly Suffolk seemed so far away and I am so relieved to find this field which kept reminding me of India all those years ago. I tried but could not hold Henry’s suggestion to… Continue reading Festivals 2018 – Buddhafield
Festivals – July 2018 – Lattitude
This was the year of festivals, I'd written it into my New Year resolutions and I actually did it. Late developer or what. I booked WOMAD, Buddhafield, Henry told me of Buddhafield, the usual Folk East, and Latitude. This write up has never been finished, but I'm putting in the few notes I took then… Continue reading Festivals – July 2018 – Lattitude
Tim, Isle of Sheppey and Maidens
Tim will always have a place in this wood. After the auction, after the 20 days, after the payment of the complete amount I took a bottle of champagne to the wood, with a chair and a glass, and the dog Kali naturally. I emptied the bubbling wine, walked the edges of the wood, watched… Continue reading Tim, Isle of Sheppey and Maidens
Shore 2 Shore, Aldeburgh with Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay, and Serena
Out of the blue, Serena offered me a ticket to accompany her. I was over the moon, as Imtiaz Dharker would say. John Sampson, noticably the only man, serenaded each woman poet, with a trumpet fanfare, the tune relevant to the geography of the poet. Two from Scotland, Jackie Kay and Imtiaz Dharker. Compassionate gentle… Continue reading Shore 2 Shore, Aldeburgh with Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay, and Serena
Lack of Agency
Charlie’s been visiting here in Suffolk for a few days. I wish I’d had a pen and written down. Irrelevant now except to recall the desire to capture his words, so keen and often poignant. ‘Don’t be so hard on yourself’, I remind him as he chastises himself again. I sleep all the time. I… Continue reading Lack of Agency
The English Patient (Cut cinema)
A screening prelude to the Cut's coup of Michael Ondaatje coming to our Cut theatre next Tuesday. How many times had I seen the film? No matter as refreshing and good to see it again, anyhow, and on the Big Scene. Timeless it is. That time in all our geographies and times when we are… Continue reading The English Patient (Cut cinema)
Trump and Kim
Kim to Trump: You are a mentally deranged dotard Trump to Kim: Obviously a mad man. Rocket man Mexico earth quake. Huricains in Windward Islands. Rohinger refugees in Bangladesh Tansyn dieing. Her last letter.
Lawrance Edwards at Jason’s Spring Festival
I almost didn't go. The garden pulled, so much to do, this great doingness, spring action, drive, (reminding me of Norway with its limitation of spring summer). But I did, and as soon as I walked into the gallery barn, I breathed out, in that way I have done before here. for so may reasons.… Continue reading Lawrance Edwards at Jason’s Spring Festival
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