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WORDS RUN IN THE KENYON FAMILY

It read: “Olga Kenyon has performed a service to all who are interested not only in the written word, but in the changing lives of women”.
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FLY ON THE WALL PRESS

Greater Manchester can boast a plethora of excellent creative writing groups but I do feel that not enough authors go to a writing group. There’s a good one in Manchester called the Monday Night Group that meets every week at the Britons Protection pub.
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KATHY´S SONG for a girl I never knew

One of those songs I loved on the radio was Kathy´s Song by Paul Simon with a beautiful little guitar riff behind lyrics of his yearning for a girl who lived in a different country,
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TOWNES VAN ZANDT: man, myth and memories

I have a vivid personal memory of an occasion when I was working as a freelance journalist alongside the independent and excellent Stampede Promotions, a small two man operation that pledged the best-but-overlooked American singer-writers to the UK on small tours of some perhaps unlikely places.
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LEONARD COHEN´S LOADS OF BOOKS

In 2011, Cohen was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for literature. His poetry collection The Flame, which he had been working on at the time of his death, appeared posthumously in 2018.
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LIFE,  DEATH  AND  LEONARD  COHEN

On his last album, a month before he died, Leonard seemed as ready as anyone could be. He littered his songs with a dry acceptance of the inevitable, “clos[e]ing the bar,” “leaving the table,” being “out of the game.” I imagine very few of us get the chance to publicly declare our own demise or, as Leonard did so often in his music, argue with himself about what, if anything, comes next. I’m writing this essay half a world away from my home. My writing has given me opportunities to chase dreams and futures I never saw as catchable all those years ago—listening to Leonard, writing atrocious poetry.
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Anthony J. M. Brady CELEBRATNG BLAISDON

There are echoes of the days of Cider With Rose, and even All Creatures Great And Small,. though Tony is far too humble to  place himself in proximity with  Laurie Lee And James Herriott. Nevertheless, he has a wonderful turn of phrase such as
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CONFERENCIA: Charla Desnudando las palabras:- Spanish Language Version

Solo quiero añadir que desde mi punto de vista la poesía nace desde la realidad, de la vida misma, a ras de suelo. Porque la vida misma, es toda poesía. Como diría el poeta y cantor Horacio Guarany: “si se calla el cantor (el o la poeta), calla la vida, porque la vida misma es toda un canto….”
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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.