New tour date for Helen Moore’s The Mother Country – with Adam Horovitz
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7.30pm for 8pm Hawkwood College, Stroud Join ecopoet Helen Moore in Stroud to celebrate the launch of her third poetry collection, The...
Anthony Nanson
Dec 31, 20182 min read
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
Aug 20, 20183 min read
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
Jul 2, 20181 min read
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, 20184 min read
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 12, 20182 min read
Transparency in Action
by Jay Ramsay The real story, which is surely the environment now, is being masked by a puppet show diverting our attention from what...
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Anthony Nanson
Nov 2, 20172 min read
New Book by Jeremy Hooker about Poetry, Nature, and Place
Ditch Vision is a book of essays on poetry, nature, and place that extends Jeremy Hooker’s thinking on subjects that, as a distinguished...
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Anthony Nanson
Jul 4, 20174 min read
Writing on the Wall: Poetry and Saving the Planet
By Irina Kuzminsky June 3, Waterloo Festival, St John’s Waterloo On a spectacularly sunny English summer day some of Britain’s best poets...
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Anthony Nanson
Jun 27, 20172 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20171 min read
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, 20172 min read
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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Anthony Nanson
May 8, 20172 min read
Saucy stamp licking for poets
By Dawn Gorman It was a packed and dynamic evening last Thursday at Words & Ears, when Susan Utting and Rishi Dastidar took up the guest...
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Anthony Nanson
May 4, 20172 min read
Indigenous by Jay Ramsay
This is a poem continuing the theme of working through my illness, which has produced Surgery (Yew Tree Press, 2015), Left Field, and...
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Anthony Nanson
May 2, 20171 min read
Lindsay Clarke videos
In this video, Lindsay Clarke talks about poetry, language, and the imagination. This was recorded at the launch of Rosie Jackson’s ‘What...
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Anthony Nanson
Apr 25, 20172 min read
Poetry news from Dawn Gorman
When Liz Watts suggested I ran an edition of Words & Ears within her ceramics installation Beached at Greenhill Cottage Gallery, I...
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Anthony Nanson
Apr 24, 20171 min read
Word Temple
The stars are in our belly; the Milky Way our umbilicus. Is it a consolation that the stuff of which we’re made is star-stuff too? – That...
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Anthony Nanson
Apr 20, 20171 min read
Reviews for Soul of the Earth
Lorna Smithers, writing in 2016 for Gods and Radicals said “As I read through the pages from this year’s position of heightened crisis, I...
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