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- Talking crime – on why we love a good murder mystery….
- Let’s focus on the words: Peter, Tony, and a Portrait of Keats
- Why Mrs T should have left the room quietly, closing the door behind her….
- ‘In relation to’ what? On ‘Talking Books’ and chewing words….
- ‘Talking Books’…On trying to become Somerset’s answer to Mariella Frostrup
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Tag Archives: Poetry
Words to the heart – Carol Ann Duffy on the language of love & longing
Occasionally I like to post on my blog a poem that has really touched me. Although I will always be most fond of the poetry of John Keats, I usually find those that I share on here are contemporary poems, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Writing
Tagged Books, Carol Ann Duffy, Keats, Poetry, Rapture, The Poetry Archive, writing
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Wordsworth, Whistler and a Waterloo Sunset – the beauty of London Bridges
The Thames is a river that takes me on imaginative journeys, some of them reflecting my real life and others a dream world that I have inhabited regularly since I left London in the late 1980s. From the Oxfordshire … Continue reading
Where the costumes are a cast member – Keats & Fanny Brawne as fiction in ‘Bright Star’
In December I wrote a blog post entitled Picturing John Keats - Image or Imagination? describing how I felt about the representations of Keats in art. I mentioned the 2009 film Bright Star only briefly as but another opportunity for … Continue reading
Posted in History, Keats, Poetry
Tagged Bright Star, costume, film, John Keats, Keats, Poetry, Regency
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‘Forgetfulness’ – A poem by Billy Collins, philosophy by Homer Simpson
I have been reading Billy Collins’ poetry recently, and have been struck by how he catches those very human moments that will resonate with many of us in a humorous, ‘hospitable’ (a word he apparently prefers to accessible) but incredibly … Continue reading
Keats at Guy’s Hospital part 2 – An education in horror
Looking at the National Health Service today, it is clear that despite economic constraints it offers a standard of care that renders incomprehensible to us the dreadful conditions under which people of all classes were treated in the early 19th … Continue reading
Posted in History, Keats, Poetry
Tagged body snatching, Doctors, Guy's Hospital, John Keats, Keats, London, medicine, Poetry
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A poem for lovers – The Hug by Thom Gunn
At our reading group we recently looked at a poem called The Hug by Thom Gunn, a poet who spent much of his life in the US but was actually born in Kent in 1929. His mother had committed suicide … Continue reading
A little tooth shows us a big, big truth….
This is something of a random, impulsive post; but I just had to share with you a wonderful poem that was introduced at the reading group I attend. We are lucky to have the poet Julia Copus running our group … Continue reading
On my return from the Lake District – putting my poem out there
I love the Lake District, and seem to feel my mood lift as soon as I cross the border into Cumbria. Where others want to emigrate to sunnier climes I long for the random weather of the fells and valleys; … Continue reading
Keats in Rome – a personal pilgrimage
That year I was asked many times what I intended to do on my birthday. I mark the passing of another year each chilly February, so generally the day is spent snuggled up in the warm eating and drinking. However … Continue reading
In praise of a ‘thing of beauty’… A film to get you started
Whatever your views may be on poetry, Romantic or otherwise, or on love in more general terms, I do so urge you to watch the following trailer for ‘Bright Star’. It is something for all fans of period drama. Directed … Continue reading
