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Worship music? (LentBlog36)
Tonight at 9.00 pm Pooka Radio continue to assist me in fulfilling my lifelong ambition to become a DJ by…
The recess (LentBlog35)
As we get to the business end of Lent, in the week the church still names Holy, I have been…
Advertisement (LentBlog33)
I wrote the poem below in the summer of 2015. David Cameron had won a slim majority in the…
From Brussels With Love (LentBlog32)
Well, by tomorrow night, we might be out. Crashed out with no deal or sailing into a bright future presaged…
Open letter to Alicia Stubbersfield (LentBlog31)
Dear Alicia I can’t believe it is three years since I got to hang out with you at Totleigh…
Meditation on self-care (LentBlog30)
Like a lot of things I am ashamed to admit discovering late in life -Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Deborah Levy,…
Writing prompts (blog post ending with a line by Shawna Lemay) (LentBlog29)
after Shawna Lemay Write a poem about the rain. Or the wind. Write about what you learned at university.…
Open letter to Ted Hughes (LentBlog27)
Dear Ted Hughes You probably won’t remember me. I wrote to you before, in the summer of 1998. I did…
Why we need to save the Poetry Business (LentBlog26)
after Mark Halliday Because of the writing days. And because The discovery will not happen on its own, unprompted,…
My Brexit week off (LentBlog25)
I’ll admit it straight away: I didn’t last the whole week. Sometime on Friday evening I switched the radio…
Meditation on an envelope (LentBlog24)
Anne Lamott suggests an index card, and I have used these, but they suggest something pre-planned, organised. The envelope, especially…
Climate change grief: some resources (LentBlog23)
A week and a half ago I wrote here about my ‘climate change conversion’, not from unbelief to belief, but…
Meditation on a line by Joli Jensen (LentBlog21)
It isn’t often that you read something that you know as soon as you read it has the capacity to…
Meditation on a line by Sherwood Anderson (LentBlog20)
‘I’m trying again. A man has to begin over and over – to try to think and feel only in…
Doing a Likely Lads (LentBlog19)
Lying awake last night wondering what had become of Theresa May’s deal in Parliament it suddenly occurred to me that…
A week off (LentBlog18)
I’m hoping that by the end of the week we may be nearer to a political solution to the national…
#PutItToThePeopleMarch (LentBlogs17)
I saw: old hippies, new hippies, punks, preppies, grandmothers, babes in arms, parents, wrinklies, men in tweeds, trombonists, anarchists, Star…
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