Anthony NansonMay 15, 20191 minNew tour date for Helen Moore’s The Mother Country – with Adam Horovitz7.30pm for 8pm Hawkwood College, Stroud Join ecopoet Helen Moore in Stroud to celebrate the launch of her third poetry collection, The Mo...
Anthony NansonApr 30, 20193 minHelen Moore’s new book The Mother CountryHelen Moore’s third major collection of poems, The Mother Country, is published by Awen on 1 May 2019. Helen is a poet of passion, power,...
Anthony NansonApr 28, 20191 minJay Ramsay: A Celebration of his Life in Music, Poetry and WordsJoin us on Saturday 4 May for Jay Ramsay: A Celebration of his Life in Music, Poetry and Words at St Lawrence Parish Church, Stroud at 7p...
Anthony NansonJan 9, 20192 min‘It’s All One Place’ – recollections of and tribute to my friend Jay Ramsayby Diana Durham Jay became a lifelong friend and colleague, editing four poetry anthologies that I contributed to, editing two of my poet...
Anthony NansonJan 2, 20192 minJay Ramsay, a Tributeby Verona Bass The title of the collection is Out of Time, which seems poignant now that I know that he ran out of time on 30 December 20...
Anthony NansonDec 31, 20182 minJay Ramsay (1958–2018)by Anthony Nanson I can’t yet believe he’s gone. He will leave such a big space in the healing and poetry communities of which he’s been ...
Anthony NansonOct 26, 20182 minKevan Manwaring and Bardic Poetryby Anthony Nanson The scale of Kevan’s output of poetry of this kind is prodigious, ranging from individual lyrics to ambitious epics. Fo...
Anthony NansonAug 20, 20183 minSilver Branch book launch 19 August 2018On 19 August 2018 we gathered in the Ale House in Stroud to celebrate two things: the launch of Awen’s newest title, Silver Branch: Bardi...
Anthony NansonAug 3, 20181 minBehold, the Shining Brow!By Kevan Manwaring (Lughnasadh 2018) Silver Branch: Bardic Poems and Letters to a Young Bard is published on 19 August 2018. It will be a...
Anthony NansonJul 2, 20181 minGrit and Pearl: An Exploration of the Cancer Journey, with PoetryJay Ramsay has made a short film about his experience of the cancer journey, including some of the poetry it has inspired. He was due to ...
Anthony NansonMay 18, 20184 minThe Gramarye of PlaceWe walked alone together up the steep hillside, finding our own desire paths through the boggy heathland, climbing our own mental incline...
Anthony NansonApr 18, 20182 minPilgrimage by Jay RamsayJay will be reading from the book at Hawkwood College, Stroud, on 20 April as part of an event with Andrew Harvey on the theme of sacred ...
Anthony NansonNov 21, 20178 minReflections on an evening with Lindsay Clarke at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 6 Sby Ken Masters ‘Hello everybody, assuming you can hear me! I am the ghost of Aristotle, and I haunt the Elwin room at BRLSI, especially w...
Anthony NansonJul 24, 20172 minOn the Cover: Glossing the Spoilsby Kirsty Hartsiotis When I first saw the cover image for Charlotte Hussey’s Glossing the Spoils, that’s exactly what I thought we had. T...
Anthony NansonJun 27, 20172 minCharlotte Hussey’s Glossing the Spoilsby Anthony Nanson Charlotte Hussey’s Glossing the Spoils is rather more than a collection of poems. It will have a particular interest, n...
Anthony NansonJun 20, 20171 minPoem: Migratory RootsBy Robin Collins Britain, this great mnemonic, land of the English, Celt and flint knappers of another age. The seas wrap around her clif...
Anthony NansonJun 6, 20172 minPoetry news from Words and EarsBy Dawn Gorman How appropriate for a Words & Ears falling on a hot, hot evening that we should find ourselves among Liz Watts’ Beached im...
Anthony NansonMay 30, 20171 minKoinos HermesHere’s a poem from A Dance With Hermes: Koinos Hermes The work begins and ends with him: the sly light-fingered god of crossways, tr...
Anthony NansonMay 16, 20171 minIrresistible ResistanceBy Robin Collins Let our resistance be an irresistible, bringing together of the Stars and the Earth in our lives. Let our resistance be ...
Anthony NansonMay 11, 20172 minWriting on the Wall: How can Poetry Can Save the Planet?Poets, thinkers, writers and people who care for the natural world will gather in Waterloo on Saturday, June 3, 2017 for a unique interac...
