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WORDS FROM THE WRITER: Andrea Sarginson

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…
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WORDS THAT LINGER AND WORDS WE LOSE

WORDS THAT LINGER AND WORDS WE LOSE By Norman Warwick Michael Higgins 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…
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BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL IN THE LOCKDOWN By Michael Higgins

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…

LARRY YASKIEL AND A CLUB JUKEBOX

LA ROCOLA del BAR RUMBA Book launch by Larry Yaskiel – Cic El Almacen We had convened in the wonderful artsy gallery and buzzing pub and restaurant that is Cic El Almacen, in Arrecife, on Lanzarote. This was to officially announce the…
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SEAMUS KELLY AND SOPHIE HANNAH words from the writer: by Norman Warwick

SEAMUS KELLY AND SOPHIE HANNAH words from the writer: by Norman Warwick What Robin Parker and I started in the UK more than ten years ago soon included Steve Cooke, who took over the reins when I eventually left to come to retire here,…
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THE BAUM, BALLADS AND A BIT OF BORIS by Michael Higgins

THE BAUM, BALLADS AND A BIT OF BORIS by Michael Higgins My Boris love song was given its first sounding at The Baum in Rochdale on Sunday (see photograph above). Some might feel there is often too much anti Boris work read out at these events…
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NEWS, PREVIEWS, INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS

GOSPEL, PERCUSSION, CLASSICAL, CHORAL AND STARRY SKIES Latonius & The Faith Theory in Arrecife La Tempestad in Arrecife Mijail Saprychev, classical pianist at El Grifo Miguel Aguearralde, book  launch, in Arrecife The…
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ALCHEMY, FUSION AND FUNDING

ALCHEMY, FUNDING AND FUSION Back in the UK I was occasionally involved in successful crowd funding campaigns. For instance, we raised a required six thousand pounds to script, cast, direct and produce a film to be used in schools to examine…
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A WRITER AND HIS HOUSE OF BOOKS

José Saramago and a home in Tias. The moment the tour guide invites you over the threshold of the place where José Saramago once lived, you know you are entering a house  of books; a house that was obviously his place of work, and also…
TO THE BEGINNING AND BACK AGAIN How does one write the Divine? St John the Divine may have shown us the way in the fourth Gospel with his timeless phrase ‘In the beginning was the Word’ but how do we write the word in a world of…