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Tag: Cricket

Their Age Now

  I went home the other day. I mean home-home, where I was born, and where my parents still live. … More

Cricket, Dylan Thomas, Education, English teachers, English Teaching, John Fowles, John Logan, Pedagogy, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Roger McGough, Sylvia Plath, Teaching, Teaching and Learning, Teaching Writing, Ted Hughes, Ursula Le Guin, Writing, Writing Poetry

Ken

His real name was Crispin. Bespectacled, quiffed, bandy legged, Ken wore the aloof expression of the terminally lonely, a tilt of … More

Boarding School, Cricket, Earth Wind & Fire, Elton John, Ian Dury, Jean-Michel Jarre, Message in a Bottle, Music, Presence, Rickie Lee Jones, The Police, Top Gear, Writing, Writing Process

Smith

Smith   Objectionable, mercurial, fierce, wise, bandaged, solitary and irresistible, Phil Smith and I were not close. Only in our … More

A Certain Ratio, Being a Writer, Boarding School, Cancer, Creativity, Cricket, Education, Health, Life Lessons, literature, Phil Smith, U2, Writing

Lifesaving Poems: Peter Carpenter’s ‘Nightwatchman’

I met Peter Carpenter in the summer of 2001 at the Arvon Foundation’s Totleigh Barton writing centre. I was at … More

Cricket, Cricket Poems, Cricket Poetry, Elegy, Lifesaviing Poems, Peter Carpenter, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Smith Doorstop, The Arvon Foundation

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