Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Rubbish

 Photograph from The Telegraph, 14th June 2008

On Saturday 30th, Terri and I will be giving another paper on abandoned houses at Birkbeck's Rubbish symposium.  The symposium and its preceding seminar (on Wednesday 27th) and film double-bill (Friday 29th) look like fascinating events and are free and open to all.

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Agenda: Dwelling Places


The new edition of Agenda has been available for a few weeks. Within its covers can be found an interview with and essays on John Burnside, along with poems by Burnside and others. Two of my poems also appear, and Johnny's illustrations are featured on the front and back covers and throughout the magazine.

Agenda
is currently available primarily through its website.

Tuesday, 21 June 2011

London Rivers


London Rivers
A collection of poems by
Michael Baron, Robina Barson, Marianne Burton,
Janet El Rayess, Barbara Hardy, Nathan Hardy, Angela Inglis,
Alex Maunder, Jill Mylius, Val Pancucci, Sue Roe, Jennifer Tanner, Siân Thomas, Sandy Tozer, Ann Vaughan-Williams, Frances White, Jeremy Worman
Edited by Barbara Hardy
Images by Kate Hardy

ISBN: 978-1-908133-00-7 £10
If you would like a copy please order from: Paekakarikipress.com
Or from the Paekakariki Press at 4 Mitre Ave,(rear of 2 Greenleaf Road,)Walthamstow, London E17 6QG
Or via Amazon.uk

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Museum of Witchcraft Residence


On Thursday and Friday I will be writing in residence once again at the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle. Should you find yourself in Cornwall this week, please come and say Hello.

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Intersections Forum at the Courtauld

Dan Flavin, from Constructed Light


On Saturday Terri and I will be giving a paper on 'The Abandoned House' and the poetics of decay at the Courtauld's research forum, Intersections: Architecture and Poetry. It looks as though it will be a fascinating event, beginning at lunchtime on Friday and closing at 6.30pm on Saturday. Tickets are available from the Courtauld.

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

London Rivers


This Saturday sees the launch of the anthology, London Rivers, edited by Barbara Hardy and illustrated by her daughter, Kate. Contributing poets will gather at 5pm at the Paekakariki Press in Walthamstow to read our work; so should you find yourself near E17 in the early eve, please come and say Hello.

Monday, 23 May 2011

Mid-May Salutation


Good morning garden. Good morning blackbirds with your clicking cries. Good morning dew; good morning its reflected light. Good morning peacock call, poor lone bird in the garden of the house at the bend in the lane. Good morning stripes on Samuel's tail. Good morning sweet rocket with your evening perfume. Good morning Phill's cough, crackling at his desk. Good morning brickwork. Good morning curtains. Good morning fly on the window. Good morning cherry tree, whose flowers are fallen, whose fruits stand hard and green and tight to stem. Good morning sunlight and shadow on the trunks of ashes. Good morning browning pine cones. Good morning mole hills in my lawn and tunneling moles in the dim beneath. Good morning early summer warmth that allows me to sit here with the window wide open, to listen to the birds and the few cars which pass on the lane; that enables me to breathe the earth-scent and greenery, to breathe, as a plant might breathe, to see the branches of the pine tree wobble and see-saw as a squirrel leaps away; that allows Samuel to sit on the ledge and watch too, before me, like a figure-head, his ears swivelling, his fur twitching at every sound and scurry.