In all our sanctuaries we sit at risk

Category: arts

  • A Joint Recital of Poetry and Organ Music

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    The recital will take place on September 15th, in a parish church near Stroud in Gloucestershire. See the small poster below and, below that, a few more details on the two performers. … continue reading

  • Poems for the Wall

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    I haven’t mentioned this project here for a while. I started it over twenty years ago, now. Both of the following two statements are true : it remains what it has always been – very much a one-man-band ; but also, and from the beginning, it has received help and support from a wide range…

  • Poems for Rising Ten

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    I run a project called Poems for the wall. A new collection for the project is now complete. It is called Poems for Rising Ten and is for children approaching the end of their time in primary school. There are 25 poems in this new collection, each one accompanied by art work. In most cases,…

  • Across the Way

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    “The Reader” is a national charity. “From its global Shared Reading movement, to its Calderstones Park home in Liverpool… “The Reader” builds lively communities that bring people together and books to life.” And my project “Poems for…the wall” and “The Reader” are exploring ways we might collaborate a bit. In the meantime, one of “The…

  • Parrot at the Breach

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    The first line is a direct quote from Skelton’s poem “Speak, Parrot”… continue reading

  • Westminster is empty

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    It is thought that the poet John Skelton wrote his satirical poem “Speak, Parrot” while living in the sanctuary of Westminster. For the medieval laws of sanctuary still operated in England at that time, leaving certain delegated areas under church jurisdiction. It meant that a significant number of people were able to live beyond the…

  • Parrot Peers at Democracy

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    Michael Heseltine for Prime Minister – and Leader of the Opposition at the same time – https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/08/britains-youth-will-never-forgive-us-for-brexit-says-lord-heseltine… continue reading