Sue Boyle
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RAINER MARIA RILKE
Nothing if not intrepid Continue reading
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SUE BOYLE ONLINE
Reading, writing, workshopping, mentoring and organising small scale performance events in real and virtual worlds. The Secret Salon 2023 Continue reading
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The Story of the Forest is more than the Stories of the Single Trees
We are all learning to marvel at the below ground networks that connect the trees in a forest into a greater whole. It has been a marvel of the lockdowns that writers and artists who could no longer meet face to face have been able to meet up on zoom and remain connected to each… Continue reading
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Tradition and the Individual Talent
Every goose is a swan to its publisher until he fails to shift it through the till. But how to identify the swans? Eliot’s 1919 essay ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ is one of the keys to understanding The Waste Land. He saw the cultural tradition as an assembly of great artefacts which have survived… Continue reading
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He do the police in different voices
Working on the powerpoint for the April talk in Queen Square. Happy New Year, Good Company and Good Health to the many friends who are already following this blog. Continue reading
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Celebrating the centenary of a masterpiece
Going into the New Year and already we have a rich calendar of events as we prepare for our performance day in June. Page editors will be meeting soon to sharpen up the collaborative compilation we have called ‘The River’s Tent is Broken’. I have a meeting next week with JUDE WISDOM, our melodious and… Continue reading
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The Waste Land Revisited
2022 will be the centenary of the publication of one of the most intriguing English language poems of the twentieth century, TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, with its haunting lines and phrases, its spellbinding images, its unanswered questions, its profound challenges and its abiding mystery. Twenty two West Country poets, prose writers, artists, photographers, singers,… Continue reading
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What happens next
What happens next is the last line in a poem of mine called ‘A Leisure Centre is Also a Temple of Learning’ which featured in ‘Forward Poems of the Decade’ and on the Excel A Level syllabus for several years. I chose it as the title for this post because writing and working with writers… Continue reading
About Me
ABOUT ME
Prize-winning poet, teacher of poetry and organiser of small scale performance events in Bath. Books : Too Late for the Love Hotel, Report from the Judenplatz, Safe Passage, The Letters from Mexico. Festival workshops : Torbay, Exeter, Appledore. Competition judge Torbay Festival of Poetry. Cultural Olympiad Workshops and World War One commemoration events on behalf of Bath and North East Somerset Council. Occasional mentoring by arrangement.
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