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NEWS            July 2008

Your Webmistress is back from the Midnight Sun of Alaska, with hundreds of photographs and endless tales of the Last Frontier and Grizzly Bears, with which she will happily bore you for hours - you have been warned.  Meanwhile, please send your own news for publication on this page - someone complained that it didn't change much.  Well. whose fault is that ?  I can't invent news !  Well, I could, and I might.  If nobody sends anything more relevant soon, I shall start posting the Moose pictures !

News from Mirian Halahmy click here

Two New Books by Word for Word Members

Reckoning by Jack Stanley

(Hearing Eye, 2008) £6.95

 

Desk with a View by Brian Docherty

(Hearing Eye, 2008) £6.95

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anne Aylor has lots of new writing courses this year, click here for details

Anthology News:

Our latest Anthology Gathering Diamonds from the Well is now available at Prospero's Book Shop in Muswell Hill, or from Brian @£7 post free.  Life Death, Sex and Chocolate is now sold out.

The Arvon Foundation have upcoming courses

Tributes to Julia Casterton 

The Torriano at 99 Torriano Avenue, NW5 2SG tel: 020 7267 4305 has offered Word for Word a poetry slot some time in the future (4-6 readers) - if anyone wants to organise that, contact Brian or Viv. The threatened Torriano Meeting House provides a venue for poetry and the arts and should not be run as a shop, says Phil Poole.  Read his recent article in the Camden New Journal here

Fancy leading a sesh at Wood Green one Saturday morning ? Contact Richard Jones

Angela Elliott's novel Some Strange Scent of Death (Whittles Publishing) has had a full page review in The Scotsman, read about it here