A hasty post so that you can all read Shirley Wright’s prize-winning poem in the Sunday Telegraph Poetry for Performance competition. All the prize-winning poems were printed in yesterday’s paper (p.20!) where Shirley’s was highly praised by Ben Okri. All the short-listed poems can be read on the website. Shirley’s winning entry, ‘My Father’ is … Continue reading Poetry for Performance
Several years ago we happened to be in Amsterdam during the fantastic Van Gogh and Gaugin exhibition ‘The Studio of the South’. The paintings were sublime and the audio commentary fascinating, so this painting (thanks Wikipedia commons) makes a fitting finale for my yellow week. Meanwhile, issue 1 of The Yellow Room has arrived and I leapt … Continue reading Yellow period ends soon
Juliet of Mersea gave me this great idea of including Cold Play in my yellow theme week. Apart from the obvious reason, I also have a bit of a thing for Chris Martin, so here he is at Glastonbury 2005 via Youtube. I believe this kind of music is called ‘mum rock’, but I’m a … Continue reading Still in yellow mode
Pausing in the yellow theme to post DD’s wideshot view of Cabot Circus. Cabot isn’t quite the temple of Mammon that is Westfield, though the design strikes me as similar. I fear it may also be suffering a similar fate: many visitors but not a lot of money being spent. Managed to come back empty handed myself, though … Continue reading Ladies lunching
Jo Derrick of The Yellow Room (and formerly of QWF Magazine) has just accepted my short story Blue Sky Thinking for publication some time next year and so this is the first of what I think may be a series of posts celebrating the colour yellow! QWF stood for Quality Women’s Fiction, and judging by the … Continue reading Yellow is the colour (and blue too)
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