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My poems were still in the bottom drawer of my desk, and the very idea of performing them was challenging, when I first met Jay, around 30 years ago. Like many other poets before and after me, I got to experience Jay’s extraordinary kindness and

The last time I saw Jay was at the launch of A Dance with Hermes in the Black Book Cafe and I remember how astonishingly well he looked despite the various ordeals of both illness and treatment he had so recently undergone. It felt characteristic of...

The question that haunts Ian Alexander MacDuffy is why the playwright Campbell McCluskie was murdered at 10.30 p.m. on Wednesday 16 June 1954, for that was the very moment that Ian’s mother died giving birth to him. The coincidence suggests that...

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 2018, just over ten years later. On the dedication page are several quotes, all of which now seem prescient...

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 such a leading light. He was Awen’s biggest champion, just as he championed and encouraged so many individuals on their creative and spiritual...

On Wednesday 5 December Awen was delighted to host the launch in Stroud at the ever-wonderful Black Book Café of two of our newest books....

by Anthony Nanson I first read Forêt, terre et tabac, and another of Nicolas’ collections, Totem, about three years ago, in the course of...

by Anthony Nanson Green Man Dreaming: Reflections on Imagination, Myth, and Memory is a definitive gathering of Lindsay Clarke’s...

by Anthony Nanson The scale of Kevan’s output of poetry of this kind is prodigious, ranging from individual lyrics to ambitious epics....

<p>In the Chinks of the World Machine provides a committed but very readable picture of the achievements of serious science fiction by women at the time of its publication in 1988. Sarah Lefanu was in a privileged position to write &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/in-the-chinks-of-the-world-machine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>