In Other News: Poetical Omerta … and just who is our greatest living poet?

It’s been a fortnight of excitement and turmoil and sadness and decisions. In the middle of the Kendal Mountain and Literature Festival and the Brewery Verbalise poetry event, a close family member died. I considered pulling out of Saturday’s reading in Kendal, but eventually went ahead with it after discussions about what June would have…

Kendal Mountain Festival 2017

Folk who know me are well aware of my passion for the challenge of the outdoors (don’t let the image of me holding a bunch of daffodils fool you; I’m a rugged mountain man at heart). Coming from the industrial plains of Goole, where as a youth I’d regularly hike from The Viking on Western…