Yarn Whispering

18/09/2026

Well another week with words at Bethought.

The Sunday short "No MOTs in Cameroon!" about a prolonged dash for a glass of pastis".

Tuesday brought "Dance at Bougival" where W. H. Smiths, Renoir and late onset dementia collide.

And today we have "Journey into space" where this young astronaut attempts a moon landing!

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Short musings on people, life, travel and and some reflections on a somewhat unusual 70 year journey.

10/02/2024

12/10/2023

11/10/2023

The Sun Kissed Moon ‘Beat & Beyond’ festival warm-up night is coming Thursday 12th October 2023, as part of 4 days of poetry in Gloucester. And unlike life, everything is FREE. Well, except the drinks. THE COOLEST JAZZ POETRY VIBE IN TOWN!

Gloucester Poetry Festival 2023 warm-up

Music first hour 7pm-8pm; then poetry & jazz 8pm til late in the Tiger’s Eye, Gloucester.

The only night where you can drink along in your own Jim Jarmusch movie soundtrack and get down to that vibe like last night of shore leave.

Featuring sounds by The Modern Jazz Quartet, Chet Baker, Art Pepper, Clark Terry, Tom Waits, Yusef Lateef, Bob Dylan, Charles Mingus, John Barry, Thelonius Monk, The Graham Bond Organisation, Charlie Parker, Wes Montgomery, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Ornette Coleman, Al Cohn & Zoot Sims, Coleman Hawkins and Morphine.

From 8pm: Beat poets & beyond: come hear their true voices from original recordings: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Dylan Thomas, EE Cummings, Gary Snyder, Sexton Ming, Steven Jesse Bernstein, Sylvia Plath, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hilaire Belloc, Peter Orlovsky, Spike Milligan, Tom Waits, Adrian Mitchell, Laurie Anderson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Richard Brautigan, Captain Beefheart and Hunter S. Thompson associate Ron Whitehead.

07/10/2023

Join me on 15th October at the Folk of Gloucester for day four of The Gloucester Poetry Festival where I shall be sharing stories and poems; at first you may well wonder what relevance the set will have to do with legacy but all will be revealed ...