Entries by Norman Warwick

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DOES TRUTH MATTER?

They say that truth is stranger than fiction, but it’s also frequently far more interesting. Bohemian Rhapsody greatly downplayed Mercury’s life (and his queerness) to more fully position him as a sad gay cautionary tale.

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Sidetracks and Detours present PASS IT ON weekly walkabout Sunday Supplement 27

As the poem by Canadian medical officer Lt Colonel John Mc Crae,  In Flanders Fields, was read out I thought of the Canadian side of our family, particularly my parents who lived near  McCrae’s home town of Guelph Ontario.  But most of all I was struck how many in attendance were there just to remember the fallen, whether victims of the macabre dance of war or those who bore their torch, as the poem begs, and survived.

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THE BATTLE OF THE BLUES AND GREYS

just another word for nothing left to lose for a prophet and a pilgrim and a pusher and the last priest in the world walking in a free world of Orwellian surveillance filming and recording for posterity whispering of conspiracy twisting of truth falsifying of fact distorting of data infecting of information more informed than ever before yet knowing less and certain of nothing except poets writing in their voice unspoken that freedom is a state of mind

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CINTIA MACHIN, sculptor

I remember being so impressed, when I was visiting schools in the UK as a poet and writing facilitator, how familiar teaching staff with preferred, and perhaps non-traditional, preferred learning methods amongst their pupils. Wonderful work like Cintia´s, all available to school children to in familiar environments will lead many of them to want to learn more about the history, geography and culture her sculptures represent

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A PLACE FOR POETRY

We therefore launch today an occasional series called A PLACE FOR POETRY presented by The Poet In The Rain introducing you to some of the 21st Century’s most exciting UK poets. The Poet In The Rain will deliver poetry news,  preview forthcoming events, interview movers and shakers and music-makers and review the spoken and written word.

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ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE?

When asked about seeking distance from the genre, she told the LA Times, “I had to take a step back. The way I grew up was so wrapped in country music, and the way I write songs is very lyrically structured in the Nashville way of doing things. But I think I needed to purposely focus on just making good music and not so much on how we’ll market it. “

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