Fanfare!! Here it is, the fruit of my collaboration with the artist Stephen Graham, an A5 booklet of haiku and tanka written under lockdown. The poems draw on observations from my second-floor window of minute changes and fleeting interactions. Stephen has created a new script inspired by a book of St Cuthbert's held in the British …
Tag: COVID-19
indoors looking out
Recently I've been working on a collaboration, indoors looking out, with the artist Stephen Graham, and I'm delighted that some of our work has been selected for the online exhibition Covent-19 - Voicing Responses Under Lockdown. You'll be able to view the exhibition on Instagram from 8th May to 5th June. The collaboration began on the eve …
Lady Marmalade
A hopefully diverting account of my first - and possibly last - attempt at making marmalade. The weekend before last, and the COVID-19 news was getting on top of me. I thought a spot of home cooking might help me calm down and focus on something practical. We had loads of oranges from Waste Not …
Hilaire 