The Roland Manuel Memorial Prize 2025
The first line you make on a page can embody your spirit and intention A prize, open to all, for […]
The first line you make on a page can embody your spirit and intention A prize, open to all, for […]
Get your tickets now! Blakefest 2025 celebrates the life of the great William Blake, radical poet, illustrator, visionary and one […]
Explore the visions in paintings and words of William Blake as Blakefest is held this year in the magnificent surroundings […]
TICKETS The Vibrators are punk rockers with history and attitude. “They performed the set tight, sharp, fast, loud and proud.” […]
We’ll Do It We’ll do it on the beaches with our arms about our chums We’ll do it with the […]
The Secret Where rainstorms spark to rainbows where conkers’ spikes burst to shine where trodden-on blackberries bleed underfoot, is where […]
The BlakeFest weekend may be over for this year, but the exhibition at Bognor Library continues until 7 October (open […]
BlakeFest 2017 Dandelion Visions Responses September 16 Day 1 1. Anon contemplates, “The beauty of the dandelion”, would like to […]
What a perfectly wonderful weekend of art, poetry and song, the BlakeFest weekend proved to be. As BlakeFest’s Poet in […]
This virtual tour allows the visitor to explore the garden and interior of the cottage in Felpham, West Sussex, where […]
INTRODUCTION ‘Dandelion Visions’ was the theme for two ninety-minute workshops held at Bognor Regis Library on Saturday September 9, facilitated […]
Next Saturday I’ll be in Bognor Regis Library facilitating two free community poetry workshops for BlakeFest; one starting at 11am, […]
According to the curators of the Tracey Emin and William Blake in Focus exhibition, the link between the two is […]
In the afternoon of Sat 16 Sept I will conduct a Bognor to Felpham walk encountering the great Blakeans James […]
Dandelion Visions exhibition @ Bognor Regis Library In the unlikely location of the West Sussex seaside town of Bognor Regis […]
My blog before last, ‘For Poetry’, quoted a friend who’d spoken positively and emphatically of a regular poetry event being […]
On Wednesday July 26, BlakeFest 2017 Poet-in-Residence, Stella Bahin, went what she subsequently termed, Bognoring. That is, she took a […]
A few weeks ago, a dear friend made a firm upbeat comment about a flourishing regular poetry event in the […]
‘You never know what you’ve got until it’s gone’ is a maxim I’m familiar with as a caution against taking […]
BlakeFest is nearly upon us! Please follow this link to download a pdf with full details! Join us for two epic […]
Saturday 7 November, 2015 Leconfield Hall, Petworth GU28 0AH 5pm, ends approx 6.15pm Tickets: £10 Adults, £4 18 and Under […]
Blake’s roof of rust’d gold where he saw angels and wrote Jerusalem bought for the nation. It’s hard to believe […]
01:26:00-01:31:30 Rachel Searle and Graham Jones from the Big Blake Project speak to Simon Jenkins from BBC Sussex about Blake’s […]
Help raise funds for Blake’s cottage by joining us for an evening of readings, music & discussion with an all-star […]
Ruth Rosen, Inspired Theatrical Performance, Sat 25 July, 3pm (50 min show). Tickets £5, (£3 students) booking essential, please follow […]
Join us for an evening of literary readings and discussion with: Nuala Casey (singer, acclaimed thriller writer) Tobias Churton (author […]
Katherine Ellis and Adam Evans have recorded a version of Jerusalem and donated proceeds of all sales of it towards […]
A short film by Philip Davidson about William Blake and his cottage.
Broadcast yesterday (29/09/14). Well worth a listen!
A conversation between Michael Phillips and Tim Heath (8pm Tuesday 16 September … glass of wine … etc) William Blake […]