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to hell with ordinary

“A victory for ordinary, decent folks” booms Nigel Farage (Brexit), blinking in a sickly dawn light as if he is some kind of jovial Robin Hood figure. As if he had just done us a favour. Well, forget...

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romanticism as activism

INTERVIEW WITH DR. MARTIN SHAW On The Westcountry School of MythWhy should people attend?Well, there’s no ‘should’ embedded in the invitation. There’s urgency, there’s beauty, but there’s no ‘should’....

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a counsel of resistance and delight in the face of fear

“We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of the world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.”Jack Gilbert, A Brief For The...

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looking for stories

I be comingfrom wistmans wood sirand I fell into dreamingunder the scrubby treestill the trees dreamt me sirHey there, hello, it's good to see you. Scatterlings is coming later this year; and here's a...

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the nail, the star, the soul

February. And not a moment too soon. I glimpse around and see work that needs completing - one of which is the Lorca poems i've been working on these last few years with Stefan Harding. Lorca’s so...

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the hermits candle

All hundred and fifty psalms roar hallelujahYehuda AmichaiI have described the weather of Devon in different ways, but the binding agent is usually rain. Buckets of the stuff. How I love it. Sky is...

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back

Devon weather is not for everyone, I admit. Today sea, hill and sky are all the same churning grey and the rains jagged like a lively slash from Zoros blade. A day for a woodpile and pots of tea and...

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curating echoes

October comes waltzing, and the open road beckons for this teller: Europe and then onto Canada for the Mythteller Intensive at Hollyhock, Cortes Island. This will including an co-hosted evening of...

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