Time for a catch up about what I’ve been up to during the last month. In the middle of June I went off to leafy St John’s Wood and the Liberal Jewish Synagogue for ‘The Poet’s Quest for Peace’, a one day festival of poetry and conversation. I’d volunteered to help with the English PEN…
Author: Caroline Davies
Commemorating the Battle of the Somme on a local scale
On the evening of first July my fellow poet, Neil Beardmore and I held a poetry reading at All Saint’s Church in Wing to remember the men killed on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In choosing which poems to include we went back to the words of the men who fought…