River of Stones - July 2011

I am getting excited about Fiona and Kaspar's July challenge to write a small stone every day next month. The Work - Jewels page on this blog contains the stones (I called them jewels, just to be awkward and different) I wrote during the January 2011 project. Join in. Read more about paying proper attention here http://ariverofstones.blogspot.com/p/about.html

Biggar Poetry Garden

I am delighted to have poems in the Biggar Poetry Garden this summer. If you live near Biggar (South Lanarkshire, Scotland for the benefit of non UK readers), you might like to pass by, take a read and enjoy the garden. If not, you might like to visit the virtual garden here  http://biggarpoetrygarden.weebly.com/index.html and look for the current submissions. Enjoy! I hope to on my way to the Edinburgh festival in August.

Graffiti Project - 22

The exhaustion of Africa - could be a metaphor for so many things. Lower Main Road. Woodstock, Cape Town

New Old Location

This blog has changed countries again.Back in the UK now it will continue with the usual mix of poetry, theatre and other reviews, and photography projects.

The Bird-Watchers at The Fugard

World premier run of Athol Fugard's new play at the theatre that bears his name in Cape Town. Part autobiography, part meta-theatre, and not much bird-watching (thankfully). Excellent performances by the cast of three. Dorothy Ann Gould's Clytemnestra extract was great. The reviews I've read have been luke warm about the play, but I rather enjoyed in it. Two acts and thirty years between them. I wonder if Sean Taylor's Garth is to Fugard as Prospero to Shakespeare? But that might be fanciful. Worth the money. Do go.

Graffiti Project - 21

The incongruity of this next to the Coke ad struck me the minute I saw it. Caledon Street, Cape Town.

Graffiti Project - 20

The truly wonderful - Lower Main Road, Woodstock, Cape Town