With the sad news about Maytree Press, I have a number of copies of Fledge now available for sale. These can be bought in the UK from me at £5 which will include postage and packaging. Let me know if you’d like a copy and we’ll take it from there. In the meantime, here are…
Category: Pamphlets
Fledge
Dandelion Sun A child’s sun finds a dream in young eyes.In blinks of dandelion eclipses,refracted light reflects on retinasholding warmth in ragged leavesbelow a flower standing up and out. Ryegrass and foxtail for company,a golden head of petals,swaying and slight,is there and gone and there again. The wings of friends unfold to test the airwith…
Artist as Poet …
A book review: Quest for Ions by BrowzanPublished by Poiesis Publishers July 2021ISBN 978-1-5272-9638-1 RRP £15.00 Christopher Brown (aka Browzan), visual artist, filmmaker and poet, has published his first collection of poems Quest for Ions (artwork designed by Russian born, Berlin-based visual artist Olya Dyer). Auto-biographical in nature and written over a decade, the collection…
Thank you
For those kind people who sent a vote my way … thank you! It was very much appreciated JH 🙂 x #SabAwards21 #Fledge #Poetry
Saboteur Awards 2021
For anyone unfamiliar with Fledge, I have posted the web launch from last year which gives background to the pamphlet poems (should you wish to nip over and send a vote my way in the poetry pamphlet category) >>> Link to twitter post for voting
Saboteur Awards 2021
#SabAwards21 #Poetry Hello Poetry World. The Saboteur Awards are underway and if you liked my poetry pamphlet ‘Fledge’, would you consider voting for me in the ‘best pamphlet’ category? Cheers, Jonathan x
One Called Paul (revisited)
A few years ago, while cycling back home along a country lane from Kendal’s Saturday market, I was attacked. The assailant came out of nowhere, making an unearthly noise, causing me to fall onto the grass verge before she escaped over the fields. On reaching my destination, slightly bruised, I persuaded my wife to come…
Fledge Reviewed #5
Hot off the press … news of the latest review of Fledge from those lovely chaps at Happenstance Press who focus on one point of interest in their Sphinx Review page. Thank you to Anne Bailey for her kind words. Fledge, Jonathan Humble Maytree Press, 2020 £7.00 Winged witness There is so much to enjoy here!…
Book Review: Impermanence by Colin Bancroft
In the doctrines of Buddhism we are told that existence is transient and unpredictable. In the cycle of life nothing lasts, everything decays and because of this impermanence, attachments to things can cause suffering; which is a bit of a shame really, because Colin Bancroft’s collection of poems is a thing of loveliness and I’d…
November 1st 2020 … déjà vu, all over again
Borrowing the above phrase made famous by professional baseball player and undoubted sage Lawrence Peter ‘Yogi’ Berra, we do seem to have been here before. Back in March 2020, when news of the first coronavirus lockdown was sinking in and the UK came to a shuddering halt, I had been deep in preparations for an…
Verbalise
Looking forward to the Verbalise gig next Saturday. The Zoom room opens at 7.30 pm and the running order is open mic first, then me for 15-20 minutes and then Louise Fazackerley to close the evening. I’ll be reading mainly from Fledge and the link to find out more is below: CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION
Interview with BBC Radio Cumbria Summer 2020
I have uploaded an edited version of Helen Millican’s radio programme. In the show, we discuss Fledge and the inspiration behind the poems. The interview took place in Lady Wood, Grasmere, about 200 metres along the old coffin route from Dove Cottage in a typical Cumbria downpour under a magnificent beech tree with a torrent…
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