I meet Annie Kerr in my music and poetry life here in Brighton-Hove. She is a classically trained violinist and I first met her as a musician at Safehouse, then met her as a writer-musician at Tom's Poetry and Music workshop, then last night she was there in the audience at e.g. Poetry and participated... Continue Reading →
Letters To a Young Poet
Looking for a topic to write about? Post A Day ideas not inspiring you? Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet should get your creative juices flowing. If nothing else, reading the letters will have you seriously thinking about your blogging practice. I've excerpted a few passages to build today's post around. "Draw near to... Continue Reading →
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Check it out! German Sounds Make for Great Sound Bites
Check out this podcast from The First Friday Contemporary Writer's Series of my friend Hillary Keel reading a poem in German -it offers some wonderful sound bites as she uses her throat and tongue to create those sounds not in the English language and so dominant in the German. You may remember I posted a... Continue Reading →
Alison Amazed 