Only one 'BetweenTheLines' before end of the year. As always, limited workshop places & as the course is very popular, if you'd like to be in the group, you'd need to book now, see tinyurl.com/only-one-bet... === fri 16 oct—sat 5 dec, £280L 7-wk #coffeehousepoetry masterclass with Cahal Dallat

The John Hewitt Tour: great poetry day out in beautiful Antrim Glens (Sat 15 Aug, £45) Coffee, talk by Dr Frank Ferguson, lunch, coach tour, & poetry readings at places Hewitt loved. Organised by John Hewitt Society & Old Church Centre, Cushendun Info/Booking: theoldchurchcentre.com/.../the-john...

Delighted, this bright morning, to receive June Wentland's 'Factory of Light' (from Fox and Star Books). And thanks, June, for mentioning #CoffeeHousePoetry classes in acknowledgements, both my themed courses & Cahal Dallat's #betweenthelines. A pleasure working with you. Congratulations! 💐

Violinist Anaïs Tran Ngoc leads the 'Northanger Abbey' cast in a final merry dance (despite the Gothic castle background) after Catherine Morland's fiction-fuelled imaginings have led her a merry dance through Austen's fictional abbey: Moving Parts Theatre brilliant at Strawberry Hill last night!

Mulberry tree, planted when this was Hogarth's rural retreat from 1749. Private view yesterday of Hogarth Art Prize Finalist Exhib (to 6 Sep): 70 shortlisted works including by my Chiswick artist friend Marguerite Horner. Thanks, Marguerite, for invite, & thanks, Hogarth's House for a great evening!

Booking now for what promises to be a unique event! === tue 6 oct, 7.30pm, £15: 'national pride & national vanity: yeats, art & patriotism': the 2026 wb yeats bedford park lecture with fintan o’toole introduced by: cahal dallat venue: st michael & all angels booking: tinyurl.com/fintan-o-too...

Michael Andrews's awesome 7'x6' vision, his final work, 'The Estuary', is my highlight in Chichester's Pallant House Gallery 'Sense of Place' exhibition (& not just because his similarly imposing 'Cabin', in a Tate Britain retrospective, inspired my £5,000-Cardiff-Prize-winning poem 'Curaçao Dusk'!)

Just releasing details of the promised new project, 'Cloudwatching: Magic, Mood & Memory', 7-wk course, booking now to run from Sunday 6th September — so there's a silver lining at summer's end to inspire your autumn writing. see: tinyurl.com/clouds-from-... art: 'head in the clouds', alicia savage

Sunsetting cool of Kensington's Leighton House garden at Irish Heritage's summer concert on Wednesday evening with, after the interval, amazing cello playing by 2026 instrumental-bursary winner Seth Collin on a new work ('Neamh-Gleann') by composition-bursary winner Ferdia Ó Cairbre.

Standing guard, with tail-feather/plumage competing with William de Morgan's staircase blue & the arabesque wall leading to Frederic Leighton's Arab Hall decorated with tiles from his travels. (Exploring the fantasy that is Leighton House before Wednesday's Irish Heritage summer concert.)

Spellbinding playing as Julieanne Forrest (violin) & Luke Lally Maguire (piano) open Wednesday evening's Irish Heritage summer concert with the romance from Shostakovich's score for 1955 Soviet film, 'The Gadfly'. Full house in the famous 'Artist's Studio' at Leighton House.

A summer writing project — a re-run of a course that generated so much introspection, recollection, exploration & creativity! sun 5 jul—sun 30 aug: 'home truth: architecture & longing': a 7-week #coffeehousepoetry creative-writing workshop series see: tinyurl.com/summer-proje... art: colin thompson

Swopping blistering city pavements for the deep green shade of a vine-laden Dorset garden, & a fresh coastal breeze... 🌿🌿

Two of you have asked for a summer writing project: as neither has done 'Home Truth' I'm doing a special extra run of that course so... sun 5 jul—sun 30 aug, 'home truth: architecture & longing': 7-wk creative-writing workshop series see: tinyurl.com/a-summer-wri... (art: dominique appia)

Happy looking bunch setting off in yesterday's noonday sun from Kelmscott House along the Thames riverbank to Chiswick Eyot (the islet that reminded #Yeats of Innisfree) & on to his other 'Land of Heart's Desire' #BedfordPk with Cahal Dallat (centre, striped shirt). www.wbyeatsbedfordpark.com/#walk

Two of you have asked for a summer writing project: as neither has done 'Home Truth' I'm doing a special extra run of that course so — sun 5 jul—sun 30 aug, 'home truth: architecture & longing': 7-wk #coffeehousepoetry creative-writing workshop series see: tinyurl.com/a-summer-wri... art: john pitre

Music for a summer evening: #coffeehousepoetry's Cahal Dallat plays a little light-classical/Latin/swing🎵before opening our #Yeats event with 'Down by the Salley Gardens' on the Blüthner grand🎹in St Michael & All Angels, Bedford Park: 'The Deep Heart's Core', Poetry Reading with Imtiaz Dharker

Bookseller Carol Kosse's table (at Thursday's #Yeats Birthday Reading with Imtiaz Dharker) stocked with a range of Imtiaz's poetry collections. Carol's shop, Everybody Reads www.everybodyreads.com, on Chiswick High Rd is 'a place to pause, breathe, browse, learn, discover, connect, giggle and grow'

Meeting special guest Imtiaz Dharker outside St Michael & All Angels, Bedford Park, in glorious evening sunlight for our Thursday night 'Deep Heart's Core' #Yeats Birthday Poetry Reading for Bedford Park Festival charities coffeehousepoetry.org/readings/

Poets arriving for midsummer drinks🥂&🎵 music before Thursday's 'Deep Heart's Core' — Yeats Birthday Poetry Reading with Imtiaz Dharker: that's Henry Fajemirokun, Jennifer Nadel, Warren Czapa, Tessa Anslow, Heather Moulson, Barney Ashton-Bullock, not to mention the dog coffeehousepoetry.org/readings/

This Sun 21 Jun, join poet Cahal Dallat on the perfect 'midsummer-afternoon's dream', along the Thames river-bank by the isle that set the young #Yeats off on 'a whole day's dreaming' (of 'Innisfree' & honey-bees), by Wm Morris's hive... Just two places left! Full info at tinyurl.com/yeats-midsum...

thu 18 jun, 7 for 7.30pm, £10: 'the deep heart’s core': bedford park festival — yeats-birthday poetry evening with special guest imtiaz dharker, plus guest poets, hosted by #coffeehousepoetry's Anne-Marie Fyfe & Cahal Dallat Booking: tinyurl.com/yeats-birthd... Info: tinyurl.com/poetry-event...

Almost fully booked since last Sunday's post, just one place available now on the 'midsummer' edition of #BetweenTheLines... *fri 19 jun—sat 8 aug: #betweenthelines 7-week #coffeehousepoetry masterclass with Cahal Dallat see: tinyurl.com/starts-this-... art: 'sunnyside series', gary haggquist

Edna O'Brien, at one of our Yeats-Birthday poetry celebrations, rhapsodised as the 'light of evening' fell through the great west windows, invoking the spirit of WB #Yeats: more (& booking): tinyurl.com/the-light-of... 'the deep heart’s core' — yeats-birthday poetry evening with guest imtiaz dharker

Running a repeat of the current course as some didn't get a place: so several already allocated on this re-run, but three places still available. * fri 19 jun—sat 8 aug: #betweenthelines #coffeehousepoetry masterclass with Cahal Dallat see: tinyurl.com/another-chan... art: 'urban skyline', stockcake

One of those 'June had drawn out every leaf on the trees' London mornings that sends Virginia Woolf's Clarissa Dalloway out on her flower-buying mission: 'I love walking in London', she says, 'Really it's better than walking in the country.'

tue 6 oct, 7.30pm, £15: 'national pride & national vanity: yeats, art & patriotism': the 2026 wb yeats bedford park lecture with fintan o’toole introduced by WB Yeats Bedford Park Project founder Cahal Dallat Venue: St Michael & All Angels W4, by Turnham Grn Tube info: tinyurl.com/poetry-event...

sun 21 jun, 2.30-5pm, £24: 'land of heart’s desire': wb yeats literary walk Join Irish poet, Cahal Dallat, founder of WB Yeats Bedford Park Project, on a stroll round the young Yeats’s favourite haunts — see tinyurl.com/poetry-event... start: Ravenscourt Pk Tube end: #EnwroughtLight by Turnham Grn

thu 18 jun, 7 for 7.30 pm, £10: 'the deep heart’s core': yeats-birthday poetry evening with special guest imtiaz dharker plus guest poets, hosted by Anne-Marie Fyfe & Cahal Dallat @ St Michael & All Angels, Turnhm Grn Tube. see: tinyurl.com/poetry-event... And do bring along your own ‘heart’ poem!

eady to run... but one booked workshopper can't now, unfortunately, join the course starting this Friday so there's a single place available * fri 8 may—sat 27 jun, £280: 'between the lines', 7-wk #coffeehousepoetry masterclass with Cahal Dallat see: tinyurl.com/ready-to-run... art: gary haggquist