Month: December 2019

Reblogged: Rough translation: reviewing Leila Aboulela (2018) ‘Elsewhere Home’

December 7, 2019

Saturday, 7 Jul 2018, 07:46Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Saturday, 7 Jul 2018, 07:56 Rough translation: reviewing Leila Aboulela (2018) Elsewhere Home London, Telegram In ‘Pages of Fruit’, the last story in this collection, Aboulela’s narrator goes to the Edinburgh International Book Festival to meet an author of whom she is an avid … More Reblogged: Rough translation: reviewing Leila Aboulela (2018) ‘Elsewhere Home’

Reblogged: Simon Armitage (2017) ‘The Unaccompanied’ VERY PERSONAL REVIEW

December 7, 2019

Reblogged: Simon Armitage (2017) ‘The Unaccompanied’ VERY PERSONAL REVIEW Thursday, 2 Mar 2017, 15:39Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Thursday, 2 Mar 2017, 15:40 Simon Armitage (2017) The Unaccompanied London, Faber &  Faber What’s in a name? Armitage could have called this volume ‘Solitude’ and in a stroke joined the army of poets and … More Reblogged: Simon Armitage (2017) ‘The Unaccompanied’ VERY PERSONAL REVIEW

Reblogged: Hearing Voices: Durham 5th November 2016 – 26th February 2017

December 7, 2019

Hearing Voices: Durham 5th November 2016 – 26th February 2017 Thursday, 10 Nov 2016, 08:53Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Thursday, 10 Nov 2016, 16:32 Hearing Voices: suffering, inspiration, the everyday. A Free and wonderful exhibition at Palace Green Library in the City of Durham 5th November 2016 – 26th February 2017 For information … More Reblogged: Hearing Voices: Durham 5th November 2016 – 26th February 2017

Was social justice ever easy?: Ken Loach and Paul Laverty at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society 4th December 2019 12.30 – 2 p.m.

December 4, 2019

For my note on the film see: https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2019/11/07/ken-loachs-sorry-we-missed-you-a-difficult-watch-in-cinemas-now/ Was social justice ever easy?: Ken Loach and Paul Laverty at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society 4th December 2019 12.30 – 2 p.m. My take on ‘Sorry We Missed You‘ Today was special. The Lit and Phil was the voce of radicalism and science in Newcastle … More Was social justice ever easy?: Ken Loach and Paul Laverty at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society 4th December 2019 12.30 – 2 p.m.

Read David Constantine (2019) ‘The Dressing-Up Box’ The Comma Press.

December 3, 2019

David Constantine (2019) The Dressing-Up Box The Comma Press. The reader views the page; and the composite shape, the juxtapositions, the relations between parts and the whole, are static. The medium insists on fixity. But the spirit of the whole endeavour is quite he opposite: it is the principle of eternal instability, od ‘everything moves … More Read David Constantine (2019) ‘The Dressing-Up Box’ The Comma Press.