Stigma is inevitable in Personality Disorder (PD) Diagnoses: A Very Personal View from a Non-Professional (retired mental health & learning disability social worker, former carer and long-term user of depression services). The personality disorders are a collection of psychiatric categories each describing common clusters of ‘symptoms’. It is important to keep the term ‘symptoms in … More Stigma is inevitable in Personality Disorder (PD) Diagnoses: A Very Personal View from a retired mental health & learning disability social worker, former carer and long-term user of depression services.

Andrew McMillan makes a poem about the origin of everything and a wonderful art exhibition: Alan Davie & David Hockney: Early Works at The Hepworth Wakefield to the 29th. Transferring to Towner Art Gallery. For the poet’s own take see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T22jaegj8GQ If you watch Andrew McMillan speaking about the genesis of his poem, line (at … More Andrew McMillan makes a poem about the origin of everything and a wonderful art exhibition: ‘Alan Davie & David Hockney: Early Works’ at The Hepworth Wakefield

Van Gogh in the Round: Reflection : https://www.vangoghexpo.co.uk/york/ to book and more information. I saw this tonight at about 4 p.m. Sitting in a deck chair in the nave of the old church, a looped presentation occurs all round you. It’s even on the floor beneath you and all created by projected moving light. There … More Van Gogh in the Round: Reflection : https://www.vangoghexpo.co.uk/york/ to book and more information.

Reflecting on Edward Hopper Edited by Carter E. Foster (2009) New York, Rizzoli International Publications Limited. My local bookshop in Bishop Auckland (Bondgate Books, Fore Bondgate) recently purchased a collectors library containing a number of very beautiful art books. This week I purchased this lovely catalogue with scholarly essays on Edward Hopper. I’ve spent some … More Reflecting on ‘Edward Hopper’ Edited by Carter E. Foster (2009) New York, Rizzoli International Publications Limited.

Tosh very much alive: Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow to Aug 14th 2018 Monday, 2 Jul 2018, 17:36Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Monday, 2 Jul 2018, 17:48 Tosh very much alive: Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow You only have to the 14th August to see this fateful exhibition. It is fateful because … More Tosh very much alive: Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow to Aug 14th 2018

Reflecting on Surge by Jay Bernard (2019) London, Vintage Penguin.  Links are seminal. I first tried to read Jay Bernard when a first version of Surge was published in 2016 in Beacon of Hope. I failed the test, feeling that this poetry depended too much on performance art for me to understand and love it, … More Reflecting on ‘Surge’ by Jay Bernard (2019) London, Vintage Penguin. Links are seminal.

‘A scribbled form, drawn with a pen upon a parchment’: Reflecting on King John by William Shakespeare prior to seeing the current RSC production as screened to cinemas.   The historical King John ruled England from 1199 to the succession of his son, Henry III  in 1216 after John’s death from, it is believed dysentery. … More ‘A scribbled form, drawn with a pen upon a parchment’: Reflecting on King John by William Shakespeare prior to seeing the current RSC production screened to cinemas.

Reflecting on Outrages: Sex, Censorship & The Criminalisation of Love (2019) by Naomi Wolf, London, Virago.   I bought this book with trepidation on its release. It has taken till now to get down to read it. Superficially considered (and that’s a self-judgement) it tells a story I’ve heard many times and in many aspects, … More Reflecting on ‘Outrages: Sex, Censorship & The Criminalisation of Love’ (2019) by Naomi Wolf, London, Virago.

DS106 Trial Assignment Sunday, 3 Apr 2016, 17:20Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Sunday, 3 Apr 2016, 17:21– Edited by Steve Bamlett, Sunday, 3 Apr 2016, 17:21 My response is based on this mid-difficulty writing assignment. My poem title is: English Suppression or Wordsworth Gazes on Thom Gunn My poem: Vacantly loitering in … More Queering Wordsworth: Parody Poeming: English Suppression or Wordsworth Gazes on Thom Gunn

Thursday, 9 Feb 2017, 20:39Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Friday, 10 Feb 2017, 20:21– Edited by Steve Bamlett, Thursday, 9 Feb 2017, 20:41 Review of: Lewis, Marc (2015) The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is not a Disease Melbourne & London, Scribe Publications The value of this book can’t be under-estimated and should not … More Reflecting on Lewis, Marc (2015) ‘The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is not a Disease’

Reflecting on reading and watching  plays – the case of Bertolt Brecht focusing on having booked to see Mrs Puntila and Her Man Matti At the Lyceum Edinburgh (a version by Denise Mina), March 21st 2020. And having now read (for the first time) Brecht, B. (tr. Willet, J.) [1987] Mr Puntila and His Man … More Reflecting on reading and watching plays – the case of Bertolt Brecht focusing on having booked to see ‘Mrs Puntila and Her Man Matti’ At the Lyceum Edinburgh (a version by Denise Mina).