So this is happening soon. Katrina Porteous performs a World Premiere of ‘Under the Ice’, an immersive half hour performance combining Katrina’s poetry with electronic music by Peter Zinovieff on June 23rd 2021 in the Wordsworth Grasmere poetry series ‘Go to the poets, they will speak to thee’. On the Wordsworth site we are told:…
Category: Spoken Word
Goodwill to all Men and Mice
I am a soft clart. Situations requiring cold, reasoned logic and swift decisive action are often dealt with ineptly when they involve wildlife infestations. Let me paint a picture … In Cumbria where I live, my house is situated next to a field. Along with the help of neighbours, the field is run as a…
Life In The Third Person … On The Road To Samaria
On The Road To Samaria by Jonathan Humble In these shoes, I negotiate life in the third person; toes swathed in top quality calfskin, safe from random shit and shards, where neither grass nor paved path can sully these soft arches and soles. I wear these suits; an actor avoiding the fourth wall, costumed and…
Fledge Live Launch
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…
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…
Spotlight Lancaster Poetry
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Fledge #Poetry
It’s Sunday morning. I’m nursing a cup of coffee after last night’s excellent Verbalise featuring Big Charlie Poet and many other local poets who made Saturday evening in the Warehouse at The Brewery a really memorable occasion. We don’t often manage a photo, but there were so many folk reading who I admire that it…
#WorldCurlewDay #NotACurlew
Waking early yesterday morning (6 a.m.), I opened the window to hear a curlew (honestly, no word of a lie). Then I went to the RSPB reserve at Leighton Moss with Mrs H. where Jim the robin (see below) said hello. ‘Twas a wonderful way to start World Curlew Day, which ended at The Waterside…
Quick August Update
Over half way through the summer break and not nearly enough poetry stuff attempted. The new work includes the short story mentioned earlier and an entry into the BBC Proms Poetry Competition run in association with The Poetry Society (for which I have renewed my membership and gained a shiny Poetry Society card which is…
Poetry As Therapy
Primary school league tables, standard assessment testing of young children, enforced moderation sessions and the inequities of OfStEd inspections seem to be causing me much aggravation of late (as I sit with thirty reports to write on this fine and sunny Saturday evening). And so, by means of a therapeutic poetry pressure relieving valve, here…
Curlew 2 (son of curlew) …
I am involved in this RSPB event today (May 19th). I have the honour of reading Karen Izod’s poem Saltmarsh, Blakeney, which describes quite beautifully part of Blakeney National Nature Reserve in Norfolk where the coast is managed for breeding waders and over-wintering wildfowl. Karen’s poem contrasts nicely with my own frenetic first encounter with…
Speak!Easy
Tickets here … Do come 🙂
Jonathan Humble 