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“John #Betjeman famously said Bedford Park was probably the most significant suburb in the western world … He was right. After 150 years, Bedford Park’s usefulness still has much to teach today’s city planners.” See more: chiswickcalendar.co.uk/bedford-park-1… #BedfordPark150 #Chiswick #W4

"When the War came, suddenly the sky was upon us all like a huge hawk hovering, threatening. Everyone was searching the sky waiting for some terror to fall; I was hunting the sky for what I most dreaded in my own imagining. It was a white flower.." Paul Nash, born May 11 1889

Join us for Summer Poetry in🌻#BedfordPk🌻 Thu 12 Jun, 'Night and Light and the Half-Light': #Yeats-Birthday Poetry Evening with special guest Christopher Reid plus guest poets hosted by: Anne-Marie Fyfe and Cahal Dallat book: tinyurl.com/summer-poetry-… info: tinyurl.com/YeatsBedfordPk…

Truly saddened to hear of the death of Paul Durcan, on powerful form last time we had him to read The John Hewitt Society (Cahal Dallat hosted). Paul, moving, wise, & witty: 'In the outdoor car park of the W B Yeats Shopping Centre / I sat down under a recycling bin and wept' (📷Conor Grennan)

🌻Bedford Park's 150th anniversary exhibition, created by local historians (incl. Cahal Dallat on Discover🌻Bedford Park🌻with the young WB Yeats📱) with the whole story (flowing through to now) narrated/curated beautifully by Bedford Park Society's Nick Mesquita Next on show 10-20/06 Chiswick Auctions Gallery W4 4PH.

Join us in June evening light for a kaleidoscope of poems of 'night & light & the half-light', thu 12 jun, BedfordParkFestival yeats-birthday poetry evening, with special guest christopher reid plus guest poets, hosted by Anne-Marie Fyfe & Cahal Dallat see: tinyurl.com/of-night-and-l… 🌻

Super Sunday visit to Dulwich (open) studio of Cushendun/London painter Katy English (📷with Cahal Dallat ) & her intriguing explorations of natural patterns, spider webs, & fragile intertwining roots. And great to meet Katy's family, friends & fellow artists over al fresco lunch.

Deeply saddened to hear Paul Durcan has died, a significant early inspiration and encouragement personally, as well as being a unique witness to our lives and times. Loved introducing his 2016 Armagh The John Hewitt Society Summer School reading, after which we talked of his Ballycastle... 1/2

We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the last embers of daylight die, And in the trembling blue-green of the sky A moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell About the stars and broke in days and years W.B. #Yeats ‘Adam’s Curse’

Shooting has wrapped in County Donegal, Ireland, on John-Paul Davidson and Stephen Warbeck’s comedy The Man With The Urn, starring Ciarán Hinds. Who is looking forward to this one?

"And did those feet…" Sunday stroll with (in spirit) William Blake, thnx2 William Blake Fellowship. With guide Simon Clarke, by sylvia plath's Chalcot Sq address + her later Fitzroy Rd home where #Yeats had lived as a child, to top of #PrimroseHill with London’s charter’d streets below

Join us for Summer Poetry in🌻#BedfordPk🌻 Thu 12 Jun, 'Night and Light and the Half-Light': #Yeats-Birthday Poetry Evening with special guest Christopher Reid plus guest poets hosted by: Anne-Marie Fyfe and Cahal Dallat book: tinyurl.com/summer-poetry-……info: tinyurl.com/YeatsBedfordPk…

Join us for Summer Poetry in🌻#BedfordPk🌻, #Yeats's boyhood London neighbourhood Sun 15 Jun, 2-30-5pm 'Land of Heart's Desire': WB Yeats Literary Walk🚶with Cahal Dallat celebrating #BedfordPk's 150th🎂#WBY's 160th! book now: tinyurl.com/summer-poetry-… info: tinyurl.com/YeatsBedfordPk…

#otd 1889 #Yeats lectures to Southwark Irish Literary Society on poet James Clarence Mangan (1803-49): "Mangan of the Dark Rosaleen...our one poet raised to the first rank by intensity". Mangan also translated Irish, Turkish, Arabic, Persian and German poets incl. Hafez + Goethe

What lore I have is harvested with care From books or sometimes here and there From talkative old men who pause to crack On sunny bank or from the sagging back Of mare heeled home from shoeing. I have tried To key my jargon to the man beside My elbow at the bar on market day.

Ascend. Harry Clarke, Terenure. Dublin.

"We shall not always plant while others reap The golden increment of bursting fruit, Not always countenance, abject and mute, That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap.." Countee Cullen, born May 30 1903

'Dear Loll': great theatre Wilton's Music Hall last night in daily letters, intimate, quotidian, often anxious, between Alice, struggling with WWII conditions, & Gerard Fay, coping with army life, D-Day landings - & survival! Beautifully adapted by Rosanna Greenstreet & Matthew Fay