Poetry Performance Day, Dorchester, Dorset

 

I hadn't planned to read anything, but I took a poem by Roger McGough with me in my pocket, just in case. Although Thomas Hardy had his back to us, I am sure he would have approved!

"I wanna be the leader...

OK what shall we do?" 

Dorset Cottage Garden, Moreton

 

The Beachcomber (Dorset)

 

The Beachcomber, an illustration by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, 

from 'Southern English', Eric Benfield, 1942

An Evening Stroll Round Montacute, Somerset, in the footsteps of the Powys Brothers

 

Now known as Park House, opposite Station Road

(impossible to see from the road)

Mandouki, Corfu

I recently came across this old article of mine, published in The Corfiot, No, 227, November/December 2009.

The pdf issue is online, on pages 20-21

http://www.thecorfiotmagazine.com/dec09.pdf

Recommended books about Mandouki:

 

From Kulning to Pibroch and Back: Reconnecting the North, Sally Beamish and Karin Rehnqvist, 2002-2003

 

An article requested by ResearchGate, from Scotland in Sweden, special issue of Agenda Magazine (British Council Sweden) 2002-2003: