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John Grevling's wistful 'Maker's Mark': brazen-head.org/2025/02/25/mak… Liam Guilar Clarence Caddell A.M. Juster (#Petrarch @wwnorton fall 2025) Nick Louras Derek Turner

So much good poetry has been released recently. Add the new issue of The Brazen Head to your weekend reading list, with great poems by Marly Youmans 🌿☦️✍️, Paul D. Deane, A Z Foreman, Robbie Cobrun, Isabel Chenot, Lefcothea Maria Golgaki, and John Grevling. brazen-head.org/category/the-a…

One of my rare forays into poetry - me on the great medieval thinker Bishop Robert Grosseteste brazen-head.org/2025/03/01/the… Liam Guilar Derek Turner New Verse Review International Robert Grosseteste Society Betjeman Society Christopher Howse

Don't miss the recent posts at New Verse Review (link below): Carla Galdo's review of the anthology Contemporary Catholic Poetry, a sonnet sampler from our winter issue, Daniel Cowper's review of the sci-fi verse novel The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles by Jason Guriel.

Fire from stones: jet in the sun, flint by night.

Christopher Sandford on the never-say-die cricketers of 1945 brazen-head.org/2025/03/01/far… Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books Marylebone Cricket Club The Cricket Society Cricket History Memes Lance Stroll Sam Oldfield Derek Turner

Christopher Sandford on the never-say-die cricketers of 1945 brazen-head.org/2025/03/01/far… County Cricket Heritage SomersetCricketMuseum Tim Wigmore cricket historian CricketHistory Stuart Millson

Here are the opening stanzas of a moving elegy by Emily Osborne (Emily Osborne). Full poem at the link below.

Stuart Millson's St David's Day peregrination brazen-head.org/2025/03/05/pil… Stuart Millson Saint David's Day St Davids Cathedral St Davids Cathedral Bellringers St Davids Cathedral Library /Llyfrgell y Gadeirlan Visit Pembrokeshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Visit Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Richard Dove delights in Earthrise by Musici Ireland brazen-head.org/2025/03/21/inn… Stuart Millson LIAM BATES Liam Guilar BBC Radio 3 Petroc Trelawny Derek Turner

Meg Hepher remembers the sinking of the Lancastria brazen-head.org/2025/04/16/for… HMT Lancastria Lloyd's Choir St Giles Cripplegate St Katharine Cree Fr Jack Noble Stuart Millson Derek Turner

BBC National Orchestra of Wales excels in Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, Holst and an Ayrshire piece by James MacMillan.North Ayrshire Council South Ayrshire Council BBC NOW BBC Radio 3 Andrew McGregor Vaughan Williams The Holst Society Archery Music Promotions brazen-head.org/2025/05/06/fro…

Stuart Millson on MacMillan, Vaughan Williams, Stravinsky and Holst at Swansea brazen-head.org/2025/05/06/fro… Stuart Millson BBC NOW British Music Society James MacMillan David Childs The Brangwyn Vaughan Williams The Holst Society Derek Turner

Two extracts from Luke Gilfedder's forthcoming novel, atmospherically set in Cheshire and the Peaks, 'Die When I Say When' - brazen-head.org/2025/05/07/die… Dr Luke Gilfedder Luke Gilfedder - Author Gomery Kimber Cheshire Local History Association The Local Mythstorian PDMiningMuseum Special Collections Derek Turner

Many thanks to The Brazen Head for publishing two new extracts from 'Die When I Say When'—check them out below!

TD following Ezra Pound round the south of France. Sign up for instalments on Substack. History, poetry, Pound and aching feet.

Stuart Millson on Alwyn, Bate, Delius, Howell, O'Neill, Rawsthorne and Vaughan Williams at the latest English Music Festival brazen-head.org/2025/05/31/fro… Stuart Millson BBC Concert Orchestr The English Music Festival William Alwyn and Doreen Carwithen The Delius Society Derek Turner

Alwyn, Delius, Vaughan Williams, Stanley Bate, performed at Dorchester Abbey… Petroc Trelawny BBC Concert Orchestra Andrew McGregor The Delius Society Vaughan Williams Archery Music Promotions Hilary Davan Wetton brazen-head.org/2025/05/31/fro…

S.J.N.Bauhart Let me add the caveat that alliterative verse isn't automatically antique! Check out my poem, "The Song of David and Abishag" in The Brazen Head, for instance! brazen-head.org/2025/02/26/the…

Just heard on BBC News that the population of Britain will increase by ‘8 million’ by 2030. (Did I hear that correctly?) Yet serious droughts are predicted as the century goes on. Can we sustain all this new housing/new people/new demands for water? CPREBerkshire CPRE Surrey