RIGHT!!! Self-imposed boot-camp for me. Cutting out or down on salt, sugar, no alcohol (except for Dunkerton’s cider on special occasions), no preserved meat full of nitrates, and less meat, anyway. Less wheat bread and pasta. More fruit including berries and grapefruit, salad, veg. Drink lots of water and green tea. And this is why. […]
Ode To A Detox On Returning From St Ives: poem Read More »
Last night’s Farrago Summer Poetry Slam, hosted by the tireless John Paul O’Neill, was another wonderful evening of poetry from a wide range of performers. I love these events as they allow beginners to try their material in a friendly atmosphere, as well as veterans of the circuit like Fran Landesman, now in her 80s,
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SPOILER ALERT Having missed the curtain-raiser of the Sherlock series last week, boo-hooing over the rave reviews, and tonight’s show — The Blind Banker — promising to be more Second Coming than second episode, Loved One and I settled in to watch, even forsaking our TV pals over at Channel 4 in the Big Brother
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Last night Anna May Wong met Paul Robeson in Britain for the first time since the Thirties. Their stage personae, that is. I first heard of Tayo Aluko’s show, Call Mr Robeson, when I met him ten years ago at the Oval Theatre in London for a conference. Back then, it was still a dream
Call Mr Robeson review: a Black star in Britain Read More »
Here’s an interesting poem sent to me from Australia. It reflects how Chinese are feeling about the current climate of anti-Chinese sentiment being expressed in some quarters which is sometimes like something out of the 19th Century. AN AWAKENING MESSAGE A Poem by D L LinPublished by the Washington Post April 2008 When we were
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A couple of quickie videos from this week’s St Ives Lit Fest. A review of the awesomely funny Murray Lachlan Young to come. Bob Deveraux performs “Consider A Wave”, accompanied by Paul Healy on flute, and Martyn Barker on guitar. The second half of Ray Turner’s blues poem, accompanied by Charles Shaar Murray on slide
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