Playing Khachaturian

  I don’t often post here about the Kensington Philharmonic concerts which I play in two or three times a year. I love this orchestra, and have been a member of it for over twenty years. We basically concentrate on the sort of regular repertoire you’d...

Colin Bell: Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love

  I’m very pleased to be able to present another Great Conversation. This time, I’m chatting with a novelist/poet whose work I have very much grown to admire, and not only because he is a fellow Ward Wood writer.   Colin Bell is a very talented man...

Where are the Women Playwrights?

The theatre in London has been an important part of my career in the arts from the start. My first published work was the poetry play, Dreams of May. That led to the founding of the charity CurvingRoad, the production of plays both in the fringe and the West End, and...
From Contract to Shelf: The Website

From Contract to Shelf: The Website

And here we are, three months away from the publication date of Out of the Ruins and five posts into this series about the steps between writing and publishing. I’ve been especially looking forward to this post because this one is several months in the making....

Noel Duffy: On Light & Carbon

Noel Duffy is one of my favourites. I love his prose, sure, but today I want to talk to him about his latest poetry collection, a wonderful work which I read from cover to cover without stopping. And that’s something I rarely do with a poetry collection. But...
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