MAN OF GLASS – A NOVEL FOR OUR TIMES It was only five years ago, in retirement, that Andrea took up creative writing at Open University. Shortly after subsequently joining Touchstones Creative Writing Group (TCWG) she contributed prose and poetry to a Rochdale Co-Operative initiative anthologising new work commemorating the centenary of the battle of […]
KING KONG A GIANT OF A JAZZ OPERA by Steve Bewick One of the most famous movies ever made, involving a big ape being transported to New York from an obscure island, was called King Kong and carried indelible images of the havoc wrought by the fictional creature. However, I recently came across a work […]
WORDS THAT LINGER AND WORDS WE LOSE By Norman Warwick Most of our readers will by now be familiar with the regular contributions made to these pages by Michael Higgins, who keeps us informed of current events on the literary scene around Rochdale in the North West Of England. So many of the elements of […]
THAT LITTLE RED DRESS CAME FROM … By Norman Warwick A tiny field on a cliff top in Lanzarote has played a major role in the colours and fashions worn all over the world. The colour red in all its hues and diverse cultural specificities has inspired the imaginations of artists, and subsequently fashion designers, […]
SIMON ARMITAGE: ALBUM & AMBITION By Norman Warwick I´m sure most of us, if not by now then certainly by the end of lockdown, will have dreamed of our favourite restaurants we cannot wait to dine at again, or of a concert by a favourite act we want to see, a favourite country walk we […]
PRESIDENT SPEAKS FROM THE ART. Poets too. By Norman Warwick It would be a grand, but false, claim to suggest that the President of The Cabildo Of Lanzarote is in direct contact with us to keep us informed of new arts enterprises created to deflect the health crisis. Nevertheless, despite surely currently being a very […]
ISOLATION, INNOVATION & INVITATION By Norman Warwick Sandra Kinghorn, a former resident of Bury in Lancashire and now an artist living here on Lanzarote, who was a subject of a post on the Sidetracks and Detours blog https://aata.dev/ a couple of weeks ago, this morning sent all across the arts a facebook worth sharing. It […]
EVERY SATURDAY FOR YEARS UNTIL … By Norman Warwick Regular players in, or with, The Tonin Corujo Quartet include Tonin Corujo, of course, as well as Carlos Perez, Manuel Becerra, Domingo Corrujo, Kovacs Szolti, Szabo Mate, Israel Curbelo, Dionisio Rodriguez, Yarel Hernandez, Tony Cantero and Ale Garcia. Of these I noted Tonin, Carlos, Manuel (I […]
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL IN THE LOCKDOWN By Michael Higgins ‘It was an ancient Mariner And he stoppeth one of three…’, or as Coleridge originally spelt it, It was an ancient marynere’,in mock medieval style. So begins the very first poem in the original Lyrical Ballads of 1798 by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, […]
LOCKED UP IN THE LOCKDOWN BLUES a conversation between Steve Bewick & Norman Warwick Norm: ´As the song says, ´Morning Has Broken´. You can´t beat Cat Stevens even if that isn´t his name anymore. He used to write some fantastic songs, but he didn´t write that song, I know. It just said ´traditional´ on the […]
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