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🖊️🎼🪗🎙️https://nitter.cf/t.co/zuGfqhoL92 @yeatsbedfordpk https://nitter.cf/t.co/AydjEbymIX @BBCRadio4 @The_JHS |2019 WritrInRes @LenoirRhyne |2018 @RansomCenter |2017 @CausleyTrust

bedford park, chiswick, london
Joined May 2012
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"Beautiful Lofty Things" by Cahal Dallat (SalmonPoetry) cahaldallat.com/poetry
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To BAFTA in Piccadilly last night for preview of 'I Play Rocky': Anthony Ippolito engagingly convincing as Stallone in this witty, wry, tough, moving on-the-streets to mega-success story, beating the Hollywood system & having fun on the way. Enjoyed every minute! In cinemas Nov 6
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That lamplighter moment in late afternoon (yesterday in St James's Park). Ice-cream kiosk shuttered but still a hint of summer candy-floss in the sky, as daylight fades behind the greenery.
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No more convivial way to spend a rainy London Monday night than being welcomed by biographer, neighbour, & friend, Oliver Soden (from the balcony of @Dauntbooks, Marylebone), to the launch of his 'Super Beast: The Mysterious Life of Saki (HH Munro)'. @hh_saki
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Full house (two out-of-shot) for a full day unpacking the multi-layered drama🎭that is Brian Friel's amazing "Translations". Thnx2💐a great group, engaged and buzzing with thoughts, theories, queries and enthusiasm. And thnx2💐Faber's Rachel, Hayley & Grace📷for making it happen!
This Sat 24 Oct, Faber Readers’ Day: 'Translations' by Brian Friel, with #coffeehousepoetry's @CLDallat taking a break from poetry to explore an all-time favourite from the many plays he's reviewed for @BBCRadio4, @TheTLS etc At: TheBindery, EC1N 8HN Book: faber.co.uk/product/translat…
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Coffee, PowerPoint and text of Brian Friel's powerful play on language, "Translations", all ready and waiting to greet Faber Members for our Readers' Day at The Bindery, Hatton Garden, on a fine London morning.
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This Sat 24 Oct, Faber Readers’ Day: 'Translations' by Brian Friel, with #coffeehousepoetry's @CLDallat taking a break from poetry to explore an all-time favourite from the many plays he's reviewed for @BBCRadio4, @TheTLS etc At: TheBindery, EC1N 8HN Book: faber.co.uk/product/translat…
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'Large Reclining Figure', looking not quite so large beside The Great Pagoda. And swirling genie-out-of-the-bottle dramatic against autumn russets. 'Monumental Nature', 30 Henry Moores (largest ever exhibition) installed in spectacularly autumnal Kew Gardens (thanks Avril Mears).
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Great to see this report on a few of the key points from Fintan O'Toole's impressive & highly pertinent 2026 WB Yeats Bedford Park Lecture introduced (& written up here) by @YeatsBedfordPk founder/organiser, @CLDallat (top right pic with Fintan & project patron Ciarán Hinds).
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Cahal Dallat retweeted
Newt Pond, Eric Ravilious, 1932. Depicting a scene at Great Bardfield in #Essex. After being sold to a private collection at @ChristiesInc some years ago, the artwork is now on loan to @TownerGallery.
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Cahal Dallat retweeted
Thanks to @nphegarty and @HonestUlsterman for a generous review of Folly Lane - also for highlighting Roger Casement, a character illuminated by @JeffDudgeon's great historical/cultural researches Link here humag.co/features/folly-lane…
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🤖 Made with AI
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Delighted to lead @FaberBooks 'Readers' Day' on Brian Friel's 'Translations'👇 My📸of Friel at 80, opening Brian Friel Theatre at my old alma mater @QUBelfast: programme included Friel's friend Seamus Heaney, and excerpts by actor (+ my former Ballycastle neighbour) Conleth Hill.
Sat 24 Oct, 10am, £85/£75: Faber Readers’ Day: 'Translations' by Brian Friel with Cahal Dallat Join this day-long session exploring 'Translations', led by poet & critic @CLDallat Venue: The Bindery, EC1N 8HN Booking: faber.co.uk/product/translat… Pic: Studio Theater, Washington DC
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More Tues pics👇 11) with former @HonestUlsterman ed. Robert Johnstone & TV exec Anne Morrison @morria20, both from Belfast 12) Ruth Dallat & Simon Robilliard, film industry 13) local MP Andy Slaughter @hammersmithandy, a long-term supporter of our events, with audience members
More Tues pics👇 8) Fintan invoking John Keats 9) Margaret Parkinson, Harry McAlister, Mary Connolly, Kate & Adrian McAlister – Margaret & Mary are key members of @HeritageIrish, Harry & Kate loyal supporters coming over from Cushendall to all our events 10) event host @CLDallat
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More from Fintan OToole lecture 14) Cahal, journalist Rosanna Greenstreet & Matthew Fay (@YeatsBedfordPk project) 15) Ciarán, Eunan (@TheYeatsSisters) & Emer McKinney from Dublin, & Cahal 16) Kevin Morris of @StMichaelsW4, Cahal & Fintan @chiswicktabard 📷own & by Malcolm McNally
More Tues pics👇 11) with former @HonestUlsterman ed. Robert Johnstone & TV exec Anne Morrison @morria20, both from Belfast 12) Ruth Dallat & Simon Robilliard, film industry 13) local MP Andy Slaughter @hammersmithandy, a long-term supporter of our events, with audience members
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Last couple of places on repeat of my new course 'Cloudwatching: Magic, Mood & Memory' which starts next Sunday, 18th for 7 weeks. We're already at module six of the first run with lots of imaginative inspired cloudwriting! info/booking: tinyurl.com/cloudwatching-su… art: thor lindeneg
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Step off the road and in a hollow place Too rough for lovers, seldom vexed by children, The blackthorn blossom & the gaudy whin Offer a dappled interval of peace. The noisy rooks pass over and you may Pace undiverted through the netted light As silent as a thrush with work to do.
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Re the creative-writing course I mentioned in the post below, 'Cloudwatching: Magic, Mood & Memory', which ends soon, there is a repeat of the course starting next Sunday 18th Oct for 7 weeks, details & booking info here: tinyurl.com/cloudwatching-su…
Delighted that Anne Carson, whose genius I've long admired (pic: Poetry Society Lecture) has been awarded @NobelPrize: her mercurial shape-shifting really suits my current 'Cloudwatching' course theme & this Sunday's module features 'Tuesday I became clouds...' from 'Wrong Norma'
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Cahal Dallat retweeted
Paddle Steamers at Night, Eric Ravilious, 1938. It depicts ships of the P & A Campbell line at #Bristol Quay, some of which were used at #Dunkirk as ‘Little Ships’ in 1940 during #WW2. The original artwork is in the collection of @MercerGallery.
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