GRAHAM'S BLOG

Dear Poetry Friends LIVE  Sunday September 8th, 2024 – 11am to 1pm POETS AND WRITERS OF HAMPSTEAD WALK A walk starting from outside Keats House and following paths through semi-rural Hampstead past houses and settings which provide marvellous opportunities to … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends            MARCH TO JULY 2024 NEWSLETTER LIVE  Sunday March 24th, 1000am till 12 noon POETS AND WRITERS OF BLOOMSBURY WALK Spanning the centuries from street to street, we will pass front doors once familiar to Robert Browning, … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends LIVETuesday November 21st, 630pm, Brendon Books, Taunton, SomersetKALEVALA In 1989 Graham Fawcett went to Helsinki for Radio 3 to interview Sibelius’s biographer Erik Tawaststjerna about Sibelius works directly inspired by the Finnish national epic poem, Kalevala. These … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends        JANUARY TO MARCH LIVE Starting Wednesday January 11th in Mayfair LOOK HERE UPON THIS PICTURE How Shakespeare’s Plays Have Been Inspirational For Painters TEN WEDNESDAY MORNING LECTURES IN MAYFAIR (nearest tube stations Green Park, Hyde Park … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends LIVE LECTURES IN TAUNTON AND LONDON NOVEMBER TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2022 AT 630PM TAUNTON LITERARY FESTIVAL 2022    ANNA AKHMATOVA “A fascinating lecture. People were enthralled and totally engaged”. (Irena Hill, Akhmatova Night in Greenwich) “Splendid and gripping”. … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends September to November 2022 Newsletter Live Lectures and a Writing Retreat Out West and a Weekly Online Course for Everywhere Dorset, Somerset and online are the three locations for these summer-into-autumn events. In each case you’ll find … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends                APRIL INTO JUNE 2022 NEWSLETTER                                              ONLINE LECTURES  My online lecture, Seven Olympians 3 – George Gordon, Lord Byron, is now available to book. The lecture will be released on and after April 30th. More at … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends                    FEBRUARY 2022 NEWSLETTER                                           ‘LIVE’ LECTURES     ON WEDNESDAY 9TH AND THURSDAY 10TH FEBRUARY 2022 LONDON – this Wednesday 9th February 1045 to 1245 Keats’s poem ‘Isabella, or The Pot of Basil’ is at the heart … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends  ‘LIVE’ LECTURES LONDON I have just received confirmation that Painting Those Stories – Boccaccio’s Decameron can take place ‘live’ at the University Women’s Club in Mayfair starting on Wednesday 12 January (1045-1245) for ten Wednesdays*. A few … Read More

Dear Poetry Friends NEW COURSE TIME TO WRITE – supportive space for writing poetry or prose, 2-5 Dec 2021 Most people who write – for a living or for self-expression and pleasure – say that the difficult part is getting … Read More