Folk Icon to Play Wirksworth Book Festival
Ashley Hutchings, once described by Bob Dylan as “the single most important person in English Folk Rock”, is playing a
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poetry
Poetry: Kingfisher
“My observations from a bridge overlooking the river Derwent on 18th February 2019.” Kingfisher by Jo Kirk I am
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Poem: Birdwatch Hour
Marking the end of the Big Garden Birdwatch run by the RSPB from 26th-28th January 2019, which asked members of
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Belper Acts Join Derby Folk Fringe Festival In City Centre
The 12th Derby Folk Festival takes place this weekend featuring several prominent Belper acts as part of the free fringe
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Celebrate Dylan Thomas Day With Nailed
May 14th is officially Dylan Thomas Day. It commemorates his life and work and is the 65th anniversary of Dylan
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Jo Kirk: Narcissi
Narcissi Trumpets unpleated from a bud, held tight their heads an elegant stretch their stems slender necks, drifting birds
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Nailed Celebrates National Poetry Day
National Poetry Day will take place on Thursday 28 September 2017 with the theme this year being “Freedom”. National Poetry
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Jenny Cooper: MINE
MINE Today is mine. This time is mine. The sun that shines on earth and sea also warms me.
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Jo Kirk: On Freedom
On Freedom When I think of freedom I think of birds and words for we live in language and
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New Addition To Beth’s Poetry Trail
Beth’s Poetry Trail have installed a new poster poem at Belper Railway station on Platform 1. The Belper Railway station
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Belper Goes Green Poem: Festival
Butterfly mandalas and colours and lights and pancakes and oatcakes and tee-shirts and bikes and badges and raffles and
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Astonishing Line-up for 5th Belper Goes Green
The organisers of the fifth Belper Goes Green ECO Festival to be held at Belper Rugby Club from 2nd to
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Fracking Month: Spell
N is for nature, wondrous and wild, O for the ozone that nearly retired, F for forget-me-not, fennel and furze,
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Andy T & Support At The Queens Head, Belper. April 22nd
On Saturday April 22nd a night of contemporary poetry with Andy T, IBC, Sophie Sparham and Adie Sanders will take
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A Poem For National Poetry Day
Errand What message is sent with drills not of seed corn but of nature bent to an unholy toil with
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Review: “No Map Could Show Them” by Helen Mort
There is something quite extraordinary about this collection of poems. Helen Mort’s poems are of landscape and language, the human
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Poem: Marsh Pastoral
Marsh Pastoral Geese wing-flap their young along, mosquitos cloud busy over puddles on the rutted track, an incidental composition, the
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Poem: Snowdrops Mirror by Jo Kirk
Snowdrops mirror a distant blizzard and flurries remind the early spring that winter’s realm has stretched its wings, the slender
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Journey of the Magi
Journey of the Magi Friday 4th December 7.30pm St Peter’s Church, Belper Tickets: available at the door £8 adult, £5
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