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Indie presses all together in Exmouth Market – this Saturday
Here is something wonderful. A day-long indie press book fair. Something to bring books together with their readers. A chance for you to peruse and buy books you might otherwise only get to see at...
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You didn’t think it was possible. On Saturday, the rather grandly named Exmouth Market Hall – which is in fact the church hall of the wonderful 1880 Italianate Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, in...
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Baroque Books of the Year, part one
Oh Lord, well it’s that time of year again. As we’ve all noticed. I started preparing a sort of Baroque Books of the Year selection, after reading the Guardian’s Books-of-the-Year-by-numerous-authors...
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The poetry renaissance: see it for yourself next weekend
This post is a recreation of the newsletter I just received from CB editions. Free Verse 2012: The Poetry Book Fair – next Saturday, 8 September, at Candid Arts, London EC1V 1NQ, round the corner from...
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Baroque sans Frontieres
Well. Things seem to be speeding up! We’ve had oh dear, what. Well, Sophie Mayer’s interview project has gone live. I Don’t Call Myself a Poet is a website that features interviews with impressively...
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My poetry smorgasbord: the best cuts
Okay a blog post! It will be all change around here as soon as my new glasses arrive. And not a moment too soon – I thought I’d gone stupid, but it turned out that my left eye has decided to respond...
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Forward into the breach, dear friends, once more…
Okay children, let’s get back to the main topic. Thursday is National Poetry Day. What are YOU doing to celebrate? I’ll be at the Southbank Centre, where from 4-6pm I’ll be Poetry Butchering again, as...
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Some reading, and sonofabook
This picture from Humans of New York is speaking to me at the moment; the caption reads: ‘When I came out of the closet, everything came out of the closet’. Here in Baroque Mansions we can only...
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Free your verse with the Free Verse Poetry Competition
Sorry – it’s not free to enter. That would be just too perfect. But it IS in a good cause, if you support the indie book fair that once a year presents thousands of small-press poetry books together...
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