
VERSES, VOLCANOES AND WIND: exclusive interview with poet Mercedes Minguela
the poem always helps the poet to know himself every day a little more and his readers probably too.

VERSOS, VOLCANES Y VIENTO
Porque la poesía es belleza que humaniza el mundo y me hace parar y mirar hacia dentro. Por ello cada día disfruto mucho más leyendo y escribiendo poesía

WE NEED OUR AUTHORS AND POETS
It is imperative that we support our authors and poets - many of whom are under direct or indirect threat from extremist states, groups, and individuals - a recent example being the assault on Salman Rushdie

POMEGRANATES, PANGBOURNE, PLAYLISTS, PAINTINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
´the doors of opportunity open to you based on the level of your art.´

MOON TO GOLD with Karla Harris
And so Karla and her musicians simply delivered these songs as if brand new and in doing so made them all sound contemporary again

LET THE MUSIC PLAY ON
“In Yaiza we have a program of artistic performances to promote culture and also to revitalize shopping and tourist areas and thus help boost commerce. Now we have had the opportunity and the confidence of the Sunset Canarias Festival and here we have been able to please our people and the people of Lanzarote”, .Sunset Festival is a commitment of the Government Of The Canary Islands And The Federation Of Hotel and Tourism Entrepreneurs of Las Palmas with the support of the Yaiza City Council.

JAZZ NUDGES INTO NOVEMBER 2022
I can tell you now that I have found a new love in music, and that´s pretty damned exciting at seventy years. What a voice, what superb accompaniment and recording values, what a play-list, in short, what an album. Listen out ofr Moopn To Gold by Karla Harris and the Joe Alterman Trio

MUSICIANS, FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS: John Prine and Elvis Costello
Our taste in music, looking back now, was probably quite similar, and as I say the last time we met was coincidentally at the same gig. During the interval Andrew and I (with his mate joining in) struck a conversation / debate / argument (delete as you think appropriate) about the relative merits of American and British contemporary song-writers. As many readers will know, music to me is all-things Americana but Andrew Moorhouse is a man of the world, with his love of music reaching out around the world with British writing at its core. I was getting a nit more hot under the collar as the ´chat´ developed but I do remember that in his calm and moderate manner Andrew just smiled beatifically, and cited Elvis Costell as the model musician.

With John Prine song-writing is A WALK IN THE PARK
Miranda Lambert had a hit with John Prine´s That´s The Way The World Goes Round, or what had long become otherwise known as the happy enchilada song for reasons that Terry Wogan would have appreciated with his love of mondagreens.

MUSIC UNTIL ETERNITY PASSES AWAY
Some reviewer I am. I don´t know where to begin to describe tonight´s incredible concert other than waffle on, as above, in the hope the words will fall to the floor and rearrange themselves, Countdown fashion, into something that makes a vague sense.