Film from earlier in the evening at Northern Towers with a laptop and a webcam instead of the preferred occasion (sadly cancelled/postponed, who knows?) with wine, beer, music and little bits of cheese on sticks … Video ends abruptly (one poem from the end) when the 50p runs out in the meter and the internet…
Month: July 2020
Fledge Reviewed #4
Soooo happy with this lovely review from Write Out Loud on the publication of Fledge. Thank you Greg Freeman. 🙂 Link to the review on the Write Out Loud site >>> CLICK Greg Freeman’s review … Fledge: Jonathan Humble, Maytree Press by Greg Freeman Friday 31st July 2020 12:00 am Jonathan Humble lives in…
Fledge Reviewed #3
I am very grateful to Ali Thurm for taking the time to review Fledge. I couldn’t have asked for a more incisive and empathetic response to the poems. Visit Ali’s review here on her site where she writes updates on her novels (One Scheme Of Happiness, published Feb 2020 by Retreat West Books and The…
Fledge Reviewed #2
The second review of Fledge is back and it is fairly safe to say, I couldn’t be happier. Steve Whitaker at The Yorkshire Times has given a tremendously positive response to the collection as can be read here on this link >>> CLICK Steve’s generous words have made an old poet very happy indeed ……
Fledge Reviewed #1
The first review is out for Fledge. Dr. Will Smith of Cumbria Life (Sam Read Books in Grasmere and judge in the Costa First Novel Awards) has written a nice piece about the collection in the magazine. I’m very pleased and relieved he liked the poems. We are now two weeks away from publication. Don’t…
Through The Locking Glass
I’ve just had notification that Through The Locking Glass has gone to print and will be out later in the summer. This is a publication in which my poem In Boots Like These appears, submitted in response to a call-out earlier in lockdown from local publishers Inspired By Lakeland, who have recently experienced the…
Sitting In A Semi
This poem has been reposted. It is about fifteen weeks since lockdown began and we are now in a phase of trying to re-introduce ourselves back to what was considered ‘normal’ before all the horribleness started. Thought it might be worth reminding myself about the early days of the pandemic … Sitting In A Semi…
Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems … a review
As a poet reviewing someone else’s poetry, I am acutely aware of how interpretation can be a massively subjective undertaking and as such, possibly at odds with the intentions and motivations driving the work. When the reviewee happens to be Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds, has been awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal…
Live Virtual Reading #Fledge
Hello Poetry World. On Friday 31st July 2020, at 7:00 pm (18:00 GMT) I will be reading a few poems selected from my collection Fledge, which is being published by Maytree Press on the same day. This reading will be on Facebook live and is available to watch for free. If you’d like to watch…
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