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Fascinating article here on how the WW1 poets we know best are
Fascinating article here on how the WW1 poets we know best are untypical of the time. As to the question, Andrew Bedford is right: Our job is to offer...

What can we do to increase the audience for poetry, quite a few
What can we do to increase the audience for poetry, quite a few threads ask. Well, more people could review it on their blogs (theres certainly no poi...

Heres my poem from the anthology Double Bill: Poems inspired by
Heres my poem from the anthology Double Bill: Poems inspired by popular culture, ed. Andy Jackson, pub. Red Squirrel Press. For those under 50, Julia...

Quite apart from how insulting it is, on many levels, for the BBCs
Quite apart from how insulting it is, on many levels, for the BBCs head of comedy to coin such a term as menopausal comedy; when he defines it as “t...

Usually the people interviewed at the back of the Radio Times are
Usually the people interviewed at the back of the Radio Times are anodyne, but Ken Stott is excoriating. On the Tower poppies: I was very annoyed to s...

Whenever we go to Norway, we end up at some point watching
Whenever we go to Norway, we end up at some point watching Norwegian TV and discovering something new (they have a lot of American TV with Norwegian s...

TV was rubbish the day I was born (Babes in the Wood on ice?), so
TV was rubbish the day I was born (Babes in the Wood on ice?), so I tried radio: the Home Service as it then was. Unfortunately that was pretty dire t...

Oh, I knew I was right to fancy this bloke so much! I recall
Oh, I knew I was right to fancy this bloke so much! I recall once in the Tea Room I went to fetch a newspaper. Thatcher was sitting at a table, surro...

Oh, thank you, Jay Rayner! I have been longing for someone to
Oh, thank you, Jay Rayner! I have been longing for someone to complain about the acoustics in restaurants for years. There are places I would not go b...