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Launching the Dowry Blade – pictures
Launching The Dowry Blade at Lewisham Library last week. you next opportunity to catch up with me reading from the epic fantasy TONIGHT, 7pm Beckenham Bookshop, high street Beckenham, Kent opposite the church. Get your skates on!
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Launch events for The Dowry Blade
Publication day for The Dowry Blade approaches, and pre-publication copies are already available from Arachne Press’ web shop, where there is also a special offer of £25 (free postage in the UK) for combining TDB with Mosaic of Air (normal combined price £27.98) for the first 20 people to get there. I have 4 launch events lined…
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Solstice Shorts: Longest Night, the Midwinter Wife
The Midwinter Wife got another outing at Longest Night. Here is the peerless Annalie Wilson reading the shorter performance version You can buy the full length print version in Latchkey Tales Clockwise – Midnight Blues
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World Premier… my very first tune
Organising Longest Night kept me away from my own blog for a while, but it was completely worth it, not least because it gave me an opportunity to share my first ever musical composition with musicians who would do it justice. Here are Ian Kennedy and Sarah Lloyd singing The Cold Time. This is a…
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Join In: Folk Song Workshop for Winter
LESTER SIMPSON FOLK SONG WORKSHOP SECULAR WINTER SONGS LEARN AROUND 5 SONGS SATURDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2015 12:45- 17:15 ST HILDA’S CHURCH HALL COURTRAI ROAD SE23 1NL bus routes 122, P4, 171, 172 stop on the corner. train to Crofton Park or Honor Oak Park 10 minute walk. advanced booking required Book Here £25 INCLUDES REFRESHMENTS all…
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Pretending poetry, songs of liberty and Ursula le Guin
The thing about running your own business is that holidays become almost entirely theoretical. It’s a holiday to leave the computer for long enough to hang out the washing on a sunny day, it’s a holiday to take the long way to the post office, it’s a holiday to read something that isn’t for work,…
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readings this week
Busy week again, singing Monday (Vocal Chords mid-project ‘stop-over’ concert) and Sunday (rehearsing Brundibar at Blackheath – more on this later), teaching Tuesday, reading Saturday. So the readings are: Saturday: Arachne Press event at Keats House – readings from The Other Side of Sleep, and discussion of Narrative Poetry. I’m not reading personally apart form…
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LGBT History Month reading at Richmond Library
It’s taken me a while to get round to posting this, as there’s been other things on my mind. Here I am reading at Richmond Library in February, complete with interventions from planes on flight path to Heathrow!: Arachne’s Daughters (with Alix Adams) from Mosaic of Air A Place of Departures from…
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Celebrate 800 years of Magna Carta in song
Join Lester Simpson of Coope Boyes & Simpson in celebrating 800 years of Magna Carta with Songs of Liberty A Folk Song Workshop St Hilda’s Church Hall Courtrai Road London SE23 1NL Saturday 18th April 2015 12:45- 5:15 £25 Tickets available here advance booking essential
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Tall ships and icecream floats
It’s been a manic few days, getting the review copies of The Other Side of Sleep out, sorting fliers for the exhibition, hounding people as nicely as I can to support the crowd funding for Solstice shorts. taking the cat the vet, rehearsing the songs Vocal Chords are singing at The Tall Ships Festival in…
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