The last winter poem has been uploaded along with sound files sent by poets and the Dirigible Balloon is almost set up for Christmas. A feature on the artistic and poetic genius that is Colin West has yet to be released (the man himself has kindly offered further unseen gems which will be added to…
Category: Kendal Poetry Festival
Kendal Poetry Festival … Where Next?
Following on from this year’s highly successful Kendal Poetry Festival in February where pandemic related restrictions on live and physical gatherings were overcome using digital technology, co-directors Kim Moore and Clare Shaw are hosting a free afternoon event on June 2nd from 1-4pm, with a stellar line up of writers, activists and organisations asking: ‘Where…
Kendal Poetry Festival … a retrospective
An Em Humble film 🙂
To Infinity … KPF 2021 Zooms into the Future
Kendal Poetry Festival 2021 … Poetry For Everyone: a review So I was organising my hot chocolate, arranging with the family my sole and undisputed access to our comfiest armchair, practising my skills on Zoom and looking through the programme on the Kendal Poetry Festival website, when an e-mail pinged into the virtual letterbox from…
Countdown To The Kendal Poetry Festival …
I miss going to live poetry events: meeting friends, visiting the bookstalls, the bustle for perfect seats, listening to poets you admire while nursing a glass of wine (beer, coffee, hot chocolate etc.) and being inspired to try and improve your own stuff at the end of it all … So, in these times of…
Is that the time already?
Good grief, we’re half-way through September; this soapbox go-cart careers uncontrollably toward the cliff edge of oblivion, while the steering wheel comes off in my hands and I begin to regret that I didn’t incorporate a brake as a design feature. Ah well … At least Kendal Poetry Festival was good. I enjoyed listening to…
Jonathan Humble 