Sunday, November 28th, 2010

Poetry in Resistance

Some friends from Students for a Free Tibet rang up to ask me to close their poetry night with a verse by Woeser.
Woeser is a Tibetan poet, activist and blogger living in China. She is one of the few Tibetan authors to write in Chinese.
You can find out more about her and all things Tibetan [...]

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Ooh. I've done "new things"….

After years of barking at cameramen and laying shopping lists of demands on tape editors (most of whom I can still only recognise by the backs of their heads), I sat a two-week shoot/edit course at the Frontline Club.
I came out with a certificate that says I know what a camera does and that computers [...]

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Poet Keats' Home To Reopen

The public has waited and we’ve urned it. It took around two years and half a million pounds, but the London home where poet John Keats composed On a Grecian Urn, On Melancholy, and La Belle Dame Sans Merci is set to reopen this Friday. The Grade I listed house in Hampstead (a museum since [...]