...and my first meeting as incoming GE! I'm looking forward to seeing the Elgar Complete Edition to its end over the next few years.

Grateful thanks to FinziFriends, Gavin Roberts, Angus Meryon, and Katharine Towers 🍃 for a wonderful coming-together of poetry & music. It was such a lovely day of conversation & music-making, and very good to meet Kathy for the first time. A bit stressful at moments, but a joy!

Looking forward to hearing about Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney at our event at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub and online on Sat. 14th Oct. Contributors include Matthew Oates @vincent_trott and Philip Lancaster Full details at dymockpoets.org.uk

A short🧵on prose-poetry: This is a page from proofs of JA Baker's The Peregrine (1967), marked up by Baker himself. It's an extraordinary self-analysis. He marks & counts stressed (\) & unstressed (u) syllables: 57.8% stressed! He tallies metaphors, similes & verbs: 15.7% verbs!

Goodness—what a wonderfully arresting & truly beautiful new carol from @CherylHoad! Stunning! #NineLessons #NewMusic

I knew these woods very well growing up in this corner of Lichfield; a time when very few visited them, being then fully fenced off. Part of the woods found their way into my poem ‘Sonata’ a few years ago. Lovely to see and hear them in this brief, captured moment.

I've a recent poem in this week's The Spectator written after a walk to one of Ivor Gurney's favourite spots outside #Cheltenham - Leckhampton Chimney. Gurney was confined in Stone House, #Dartford for much of his life post-#WW1 WW1 Poetry Archive Poem can be read here spectator.co.uk/poem/stone/

Greetings! I've let Twitter slip & am never sure whether or not to be posting, even if time allows. The muddle of life and a great conflict with how much technology & social media impinges & imposes. But to abandon it breaks a connection with many lovely people... #SocialQuandary

Philip is Crediton Singers new musical director Alan Quick #Crediton creditoncourier.co.uk/news/philip-is…

I have great reservations about social media, but have followed a trend to leap across to BlueSky to see how things fare there. I'm at philiplancaster.bsky.social, should any be interested.

Obituary: Composer Raymond Warren Passes Away at 96. He studied privately with #MichaelTippett -- Opera Wire operawire.com/obituary-compo…

My hope every summer. To hide away and dream of autumn.

2 Pieces for James: No. 1, James's Jaunt youtu.be/Zk5pvdlMdzM?si… via YouTube I am thrilled to have these two piano pieces included in this fascinating programme and played so brilliantly by Matthew Schellhorn.

I'm glad that this obit of #RaymondWarren made the The Guardian British Music Society Wise Music Classical Dr Jonathan Clinch 𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚖 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚂𝚘𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚝𝚢 Ulster Orchestra University of Bristol ʀᴇɴᴀᴜᴅ ᴍᴀᴄʜᴀʀᴛ Diana Burrell Mark Simpson I long for the day his music can be more widely heard theguardian.com/music/2025/jul…