First up is ‘bains de mer’ or ‘sea swimming’, remembering my beloved french bonne maman or grandmother.

Poetry in aldeburgh. I was sorry to miss the shameless wow festival yesterday at battersea arts centre (life too hectic right now). Visual, stitch works and a collectively written litany prompted by coastal encounters. Celebrating aldeburgh, many of the poems include water.

Enough of them to form a minority tradition. Posts about poetry in aldeburgh written by patricia debney. November 3, 2017 end date:

Our new programmer andrew parkes caught up with poet raymond antrobus ahead his appearance at this year’s poetry in aldeburgh in one of a series of events curated by the. Wh auden, from ‘night mail’ (1936) this is the night mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order, letters for the rich, letters for the poor, the shop at the corner, the girl. Ben rogers interviews… ian duhig “i think it can be misleading to talk about musicality in poetry as that tends to mean a certain kind of musicality when in fact many exist,.

Earlier this year, they received an arts council bursary for a free read at the literary consultancy. Their poem ‘the studio’ is forthcoming in tenebrae: The poetry society is pleased to once again be supporting the recently announced poetry in aldeburgh festival programme.