Tag Archives: Poetry

Let’s hope it stops by Tuesday…. Rain in poetry by A A Milne & Langston Hughes

Posted on April 29, 2012 by

I couldn’t resist it. The rain has been incessant. The roads of Somerset are flooded and the thick, grey sky seems to come down so low you fear you will lose your way in it. Will it ever stop? These … Continue reading →

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Keats the Radical, or Where were those fields of mists and mellow fruitfulness?

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

At the end of March a blog appeared on the Oxford University Press website explaining the work behind a paper just  published in The Review of English Studies. The blog is entitled ‘A Keatsian Field trip’ and was written by Richard Turley, … Continue reading →

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When procrastination pays off: Finding ‘Five Ways to Kill A Man’ by Edwin Brock

Posted on April 15, 2012 by

A quiet Sunday afternoon. Lots of work to do; the house is a mess. I have just looked down at my hands and see the results of a morning in the garden – broken and dirty fingernails and a splinter … Continue reading →

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Lets focus on the day job….On life coaching, creativity & the local economy

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

There are very few writers, even those with published work on the shelf, who can say that they earn a living wage solely from that writing. A few articles, the novel-in-progress or in my case the fund-raising anthology don’t pay the mortgage. … Continue reading →

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Minding where I’m going: The road less travelled by…

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

I took a wonderful walk last Thursday. It started on the well-worn route behind the ‘best beds in the world’ Relyon factory just around the corner from where we live in Wellington, Somerset. The footpath is a narrow one, overhung with spindly … Continue reading →

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‘He is gone…’ Joseph Severn on the death of John Keats

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

Rome. 27 February 1821. My dear Brown, He is gone–he died with the most perfect ease–he seemed to go to sleep. On the 23rd, about 4, the approaches of death came on. “Severn-I–lift me up–I am dying–I shall die easy–don’t … Continue reading →

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‘Face or figure?’ – On needing to lose a little weight in middle-age…

Posted on February 22, 2012 by

Oh dear. I have been told I should lose a stone in weight. That is something else in kilograms but it won’t sound any better. It should probably be more like two  - I have lymphoedema in my legs and … Continue reading →

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The Keats Brothers – The Life of John & George by Denise Gigante

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

In 1818, the newly-wed George and Georgiana Keats left London and their families to travel 4000 miles across the Atlantic to follow the American Dream. Swept up in the Romantic enthusiasm for founding a Utopian settlement in the west of America they … Continue reading →

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Fighting the fear of failure; or ‘stop titting about…….’

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

I have been a little quiet on this blog of late. I think a combination of life ‘stuff’ has meant my concentration levels are low, inspiration hard to find and that dreaded monster self-doubt whispers in my ear ‘you have … Continue reading →

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September 1818: So begins the miracle of Keats’ ‘Living Year’.

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

In the late 1970s, in my mid-teens and already enjoying the poetry of John Keats (albeit without really understanding all of it) I read a book by one of the great twentieth century writers on Keats and his work – Robert Gittings. … Continue reading →

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