Paper Places
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The Old Straight Track by Alfred Watkins
My contribution to the Guardian Books ‘Summer Journeys’ series is online today. Most journeys are planned in advance and start out with a clear goal. This one started quietly when, on 30 June 1920, a respected businessman and photographer was visiting the Herefordshire village of Blackwardine… (read more) Continue reading
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More Logical Fallacies
Originally posted on David Bremner: Here are a few excerpts from my recent song-cycle of poetry by Billy Mills, Logical Fallacies. The performers are Andreea Banciu (viola) and Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano). Manor Street gate walk garden ? snails trike blue ? trough float stairs ? string cards school ? lodge street gate This song this… Continue reading
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LANDscape UL • Place, performance and imagination research seminar – all welcome
LANDscape UL • Place, performance and imagination. Place, performance and imagination Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 4-5.30pm, Tower Theatre, Irish World Academy of Music & Dance LANDscape research seminar – all welcom Speakers: Dr. Niall Keegan, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance ‘Mapping the Linguistic Turn – language, space and place in Irish traditional music’… Continue reading
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Place Quotes
A handout from the International Literacy Day conversation. “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder “I hate scenery.” – Denis Devlin “Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock.” – Simon Schama in Landscape and Memory “The sudden… Continue reading
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International Literacy Day Event
This is the press release for my Limerick event this Sunday at six in the evening. On Sunday 8 September, The Hunt Museum and Ormston House will celebrate UNESCO Literacy Day with a free discussion event with poet Billy Mills of hardPressed Poetry. You are invited to join us in exploring questions about place, representation… Continue reading
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The Abbey that Isn’t
The first thing you notice when you visit the abbey at Abington is that it isn’t there. What’s worse, nobody’s really sure where “there” is. It may have been beside the cemetery, but then again it may not. The two small ruins just outside the graveyard wall may have been part of it, but that’s… Continue reading
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Sustainable Poetry
Covers pic.twitter.com/0nc6NKDjbU — Billy Mills https://www.patreon.com/user?u (@BmillsBilly) May 15, 2019 I see @AlecFinlay @Carrie_Etter @pjoris in there. Download the free PDFs here: https://t.co/9KCCMwAnaPhttps://t.co/kbAiMxGRGC — Billy Mills https://www.patreon.com/user?u (@BmillsBilly) May 15, 2019 Everything is connected to everything else. A bald statement to begin with. Much contemporary poetry is predicated on a set of unsustainable anthropocentric views… Continue reading
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