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On Thursday 20th July at 7pm in Kendal’s Carnegie Library, a music and poetry event will take place celebrating the completion of six months of refurbishment of one of the town’s most iconic buildings. The event will feature five local poets and members of a Californian indie folk and pop band. U.S. singer, songwriter and…
Karla Kane Comes To Kendal
It’s early May and we need to drum up a bit of interest in the July 20th evening event at Kendal Library celebrating the rebirth of such a fantastic and important establishment. We have Karla Kane and the Corner Laughers from California visiting the Lakes to play some wonderful music and five poets to read…
Swifts
a poem inspired by Mykola Leontovych leaves on a treefine canopysway in the breezewaving at megreen, red and goldthere to beholdsweeping the skybranches unfold swifts in the airswifts everywherehigh overheadwing and a prayersee how they climbhigher each timesoaring with skillgraceful sublime insects belowzip to and froquite unawarelittle they knowthen from the skyblink of an eyeswift…
There is Love Within Each Act of Kindness
a poem by Jonathan Humble inspired by the Windermere Children A couple of weeks ago I listened to Ike Alterman and Trevor Avery on Radio Four talking about the Windermere Children and the story of how 300 Jewish children were airlifted out of German concentration camps in 1945. You are no doubt aware of their…
A Mad Idea … ?
Bit of a longshot but I’m looking at the application process involved in the Today programme guest editing opportunity (link to information on the BBC Today programme site here >>> CLICK ). I can’t get a response from Poetry Please when I’ve suggested an episode promoting more contemporary poetry written for children (and the production…
Poems Stuck in my Brain
A Book Review Poems Stuck In My BrainBy Stephanie Henson In her opening poem, Stephanie tells us Books are the Key to unlocking the imagination. With over 80 poems, she has provided plenty of opportunities for middle-grade readers to set free their thoughts with a confident, wide-ranging and highly readable collection. In the regenerative message…
The Milk House …
Best Poem 2022 Winners Announced By Ryan Dennis December 28, 2022 The votes for Best Poem 2022 on The Milk House are in. With an extremely strong shortlist for the award, it is not surprising that the results were close. Judge Nicki Griffin has determined the Judge’s Choice for best poem, and you, the audience of The Milk House, has…
Review … Head in the Clouds
Head in the Clouds by Charlie Bown Published in Chasing Clouds … Adventures in a Poetry Balloon (The Dirigible Balloon and Yorkshire Times Publishing 2022) Illustration by Em Humble Teacher says,Get your head out,Right out,Out of the clouds. Nothing good can comeFrom having a headStuck in the clouds,He says. Before I take my headOut of…
Book Review … Steve Whitaker takes a look at Chasing Clouds
Chasing Clouds … Adventures in a Poetry Balloon, published late in November, has just received its first review from that knowledgeable chap and all-round lovely human, Steve Whitaker of the Yorkshire Times. The link to the full review is here and, needless to say, I am incredibly pleased with Mr Whitaker’s perceptive and lyrical take…
The Milk House
Here’s a bit of news … Over at the rural poetry collective website, The Milk House, they have started a new yearly best poem competition. Judged blind, from the collection uploaded in 2022, poet Nicki Griffin has shortlisted ten poems that made the most favourable impact on her and that list has now been made…
The Balloon Goes Up … adventures in children’s poetry
I stagger to the counter, an armful of book packages clutched to my chest. “Hello!” I say through the perspex slot. “It’s me again.” Mrs Goggins in the post office leaps into action and five minutes of weighing, printing and sticking begins as post codes and zip codes are checked. While the growing queue behind…
Jonathan Humble 
