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A wildflower
31st December 2018
Cancer Journey, Photography, Stained Light, Travels

2018: The Year of Relearning How to Focus

Driven by a giddy need to make up for lost time, my first full year post-cancer treatment was full tilt with travel, art galleries, books, family and friends. I also finally learned how to use my iPhone camera – you touch the screen to focus, doh!  Fizzing with this epiphany, I even signed up for a iPhone photography course, way…

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Bomber Command Iraq Palestine stained glass wildflowers

13th September 2018
Environmentalism, Israel-Palestine, Poetry, Politics, The Middle East

Building Jerusalem . . . in Jerusalem

  September sings, but the chords of summer echo on, not least of my visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territories in late July for readings from A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry, the bilingual anthology I edited last year for Smokestack Books. Travelling with Rachel Searle, the Director of BlakeFest (Bognor Regis) – for whom I am consulting on…

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Al Ma'mal BlakeFest Dareen Tatour Farid Bitar ICAHD Jerusalem Khalil Sakakini Centre Marwan Makhoul May abu Alhayyat One Democratic State Palestine Rachel Searle William Blake

Lee Bul_Various Works
22nd July 2018
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Some recent events: or, l’esprit d’escalier outwitted!

I used to be a performance poet. Wearing an eyeliner moustache I’d throw myself around the stage like a deranged Russian count, or adopting an ersatz German accent I’d impersonate a formidable Frau on the warpath. I never got nervous before these appearances: it wasn’t me up there, what was there to worry about? When I began writing SFF novels…

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A Blade of Grass BSFA Chad Dixon Dan Jones Farid Bitar Grenfell Tower Samir Mahmoud The Djinn Falls in Love The World Cup

Boys in a Syrian refugee camp
14th April 2018
Politics, Syria

Syria: Who to Trust?

I haven’t posted about Syria this week because I’ve been thinking a lot about what to say. In recent weeks I’ve met people who’ve told me that: 1) Assad has to stay because otherwise Syria will end up being controlled by a US-Wahhabi-Zionist alliance, and Christianity will be wiped out in the Middle East – once there is peace, though,…

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Syria

Invite to Red Hen Press reading in London
8th April 2018
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April in London: Poetry & SF Events

Shivering through the cruellest month? Didn’t book your Eurostar ticket to Paris? Never mind, London is blossoming too, at least for this Brighton lilac – it would be lovely to see you at one or t’other (or both!) of these upcoming literary flowerings . . . a Red Hen Press poetry reading at the Betsey Trotwood pub in Farringdon Rd, and…

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