Anthony Nanson
New tour date for Helen Moore’s The Mother Country – with Adam Horovitz
7.30pm for 8pm Hawkwood College, Stroud Join ecopoet Helen Moore in Stroud to celebrate the launch of her third poetry collection, The...
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Anthony Nanson
- Apr 30, 2019
- 3 min
Helen Moore’s new book The Mother Country
Helen 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,...
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Anthony Nanson
- Apr 28, 2019
- 1 min
Jay Ramsay: A Celebration of his Life in Music, Poetry and Words
Join 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...
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Anthony Nanson
- Jan 9, 2019
- 2 min
‘It’s All One Place’ – recollections of and tribute to my friend Jay Ramsay
by Diana Durham Jay became a lifelong friend and colleague, editing four poetry anthologies that I contributed to, editing two of my...
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Anthony Nanson
- Jan 2, 2019
- 2 min
Jay Ramsay, a Tribute
by 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...
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Anthony Nanson
- Dec 31, 2018
- 2 min
Jay 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...
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Anthony Nanson
- Oct 26, 2018
- 2 min
Kevan Manwaring and Bardic Poetry
by Anthony Nanson The scale of Kevan’s output of poetry of this kind is prodigious, ranging from individual lyrics to ambitious epics....
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Anthony Nanson
- Aug 20, 2018
- 3 min
Silver Branch book launch 19 August 2018
On 19 August 2018 we gathered in the Ale House in Stroud to celebrate two things: the launch of Awen’s newest title, Silver Branch:...
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Anthony Nanson
- Aug 3, 2018
- 1 min
Behold, 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...
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Anthony Nanson
- Jul 2, 2018
- 1 min
Grit and Pearl: An Exploration of the Cancer Journey, with Poetry
Jay 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...
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Anthony Nanson
- May 18, 2018
- 4 min
The Gramarye of Place
We walked alone together up the steep hillside, finding our own desire paths through the boggy heathland, climbing our own mental...
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Anthony Nanson
- Apr 18, 2018
- 2 min
Pilgrimage by Jay Ramsay
Jay 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...
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Anthony Nanson
- Nov 21, 2017
- 8 min
Reflections on an evening with Lindsay Clarke at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 6 S
by Ken Masters ‘Hello everybody, assuming you can hear me! I am the ghost of Aristotle, and I haunt the Elwin room at BRLSI, especially...
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Anthony Nanson
- Jul 24, 2017
- 2 min
On the Cover: Glossing the Spoils
by Kirsty Hartsiotis When I first saw the cover image for Charlotte Hussey’s Glossing the Spoils, that’s exactly what I thought we had....
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Anthony Nanson
- Jun 27, 2017
- 2 min
Charlotte Hussey’s Glossing the Spoils
by Anthony Nanson Charlotte Hussey’s Glossing the Spoils is rather more than a collection of poems. It will have a particular interest,...
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Anthony Nanson
- Jun 20, 2017
- 1 min
Poem: Migratory Roots
By Robin Collins Britain, this great mnemonic, land of the English, Celt and flint knappers of another age. The seas wrap around her...
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Anthony Nanson
- Jun 6, 2017
- 2 min
Poetry news from Words and Ears
By Dawn Gorman How appropriate for a Words & Ears falling on a hot, hot evening that we should find ourselves among Liz Watts’ Beached...
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Anthony Nanson
- May 30, 2017
- 1 min
Koinos Hermes
Here’s a poem from A Dance With Hermes: Koinos Hermes The work begins and ends with him: the sly light-fingered god of crossways,...
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Anthony Nanson
- May 16, 2017
- 1 min
Irresistible Resistance
By Robin Collins Let our resistance be an irresistible, bringing together of the Stars and the Earth in our lives. Let our resistance be...
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Anthony Nanson
- May 11, 2017
- 2 min
Writing 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...
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