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…

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…

Simon Armitage … Magnetic Field Recordings #4

Yay! The lost recording …

Simon Armitage … Magnetic Field Recordings #6

Simon Armitage reads True North from his career-spanning poetry collection, Magnetic Field:

Simon Armitage … Magnetic Field Recordings #5

I have no idea what happened to episode 4 …

Simon Armitage … Magnetic Field Recordings #3

Hello World! Poet Laureate Simon Armitage gets out of his shed and reads Kitchen Window from his latest poetry collection Magnetic Field, in his weekly broadcasts from Marsden village … … when does a village become a town? #AskingForAFriend P.S. I miss the shed …

Simon Armitage … Magnetic Field Recordings #2

More marvellous stuff from Marsden … Note:  Privet always makes me think of the school stick insect I looked after one summer. It ate privet from our garden, but escaped in the house and laid eggs all over the place which hatched at various times so that we experienced a biblical infestation over the subsequent…

Simon Armitage … Magnetic Field Recordings #1

Amazing what you find on that YouTube. The Poet Laureate is doing weekly broadcasts from his latest work (Magnetic Field) and needs a bigger audience than just the sheep of Marsden (tough crowd) … #Brill #Poetry See more info >>> HERE