I don't do well in the heat so have been wilting over the past few days, especially as the heatwave has coincided with a frantically busy patch both work and family-wise. So I'm putting the occasional memory lapse down to the weather and lack of time - but this morning, doing some research for a major prose project I'm currently embarking on, I was amused when I realised that I 'd failed to recognize myself as the author of an article I was finding very useful! To be fair, it had been written a few decades back ...
But there's lots happening poetry-wise at the moment too. I much enjoyed "Shore To Shore", the poetry reading by Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Jackie Kay and Imtiaz Dharker in Penarth last weekend, the first of eight events around the country celebrating Independent Bookshops Week. Tomorrow sees the start of the Ledbury Poetry Festival and I'm delighted to be reading at the Community Showcase event there next Monday, July 2nd, at 10.00. It's a free event - please do come along if you're in the area and do have a good look at the Festival programme, which has some really excellent and exciting inclusions this year. This weekend also sees the Abergavenny Arts Festival with poetry and creative writing sessions alongside marble carving, pottery, painting, textiles, music and loads more besides - mostly free events again.
For now though I shall retreat to the blessed cool of the kitchen to rehydrate ...
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