🌳Explore #WBY's boyhood London neighbourhood🌳by smartphone trail📱with Ciarán Hinds via QR-code at @ConradShawcross's #EnwroughtLight artwork🎇org: @CLDallat
Bedford Park🌻Chiswick🌻London
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Explore London's latest arts-adventure with Ciarán Hinds via our (free+open24/7!) #Yeats🌻#BedfordPk🌻smartphone 📱poetry-places trail🚶round the young #Yeats's boyhood London neighbourhood: starts at @ConradShawcross RA's spiralling Yeatsian gyre #EnwroughtLight !(Turnham Grn🚇)
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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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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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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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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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Brigid Brophy's prizewinning novel, Hackenfeller's Ape, reissued in USA by @Dalkey_Archive. Yay!
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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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Last #coffeehousepoetry course of the year, repeat of 'Cloudwatching: Magic, Mood & Memory', starts tomorrow, Sunday 18th for 7 weeks. If you'd like the opportunity to catch this course, email me on [email protected].
full details at: tinyurl.com/last-course-of-t…
image: robert jahns
Engaged with Eastern religions, texts, teaching & spirituality from his early🌻#BedfordPk🌻days, in 1926 #Yeats read "Essays in Zen Buddhism" by philosopher DT Suzuki (b. #otd 1870), corresponded with Suzuki, and took his journal "The Eastern Buddhist" for the rest of his life.
Explore London's latest arts-adventure with Ciarán Hinds via our (free+open24/7!) #Yeats🌻#BedfordPk🌻smartphone 📱poetry-places trail🚶round the young #Yeats's boyhood London neighbourhood: starts at @ConradShawcross RA's spiralling Yeatsian gyre #EnwroughtLight !(Turnham Grn🚇)
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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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Two of my favourites from @royalacademy 'Richard Dadd – Beyond Bedlam' (visited yesterday with Wendy French). Strong 1970s fairytale vibe from his 1843-&-beyond paintings while in Broadmoor & later Bedlam, influencing Angela Carter, Neil Gaiman, Freddie Mercury & Terry Pratchett.
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I have no symbol for this clay-red town,
Its painted gables and its marching feet
And the thronged anxious lives its walls contain.
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I have come by lonely Orra round the glen
And stopped with men at turf upon the moss
Or had a good hour's crack with surfacemen
About the snowstorm and the heavy loss
Of sheep that winter seven years ago
For in that place this is the theme to broach.
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. We may till
The stubborn clods of our nature and be sure
Of some crop sprouting; and the open heart
Can always snatch some wonder from the air
That for a while may set our steps apart
From the swift jostling hurry to despair.
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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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'Liberté', part#2 of De Gaulle biopic. As gripping, dramatic, poignant as part#1: the courage of Free French army & Resistance (pic) both held together by De Gaulle's love of France. Plus Paul Éluard's own voiceover of his poem 'j'ecris ton nom' as Paris is liberated. Tremendous!
Many thanks, Eunan & Emer for making the trip and glad you enjoyed the event. Great to know you're continuing to bring Lily and Lolly (the distaff half of🌻#BedfordPk's🌻talented Yeats family and a key source of Ireland's 20c craft🪡movement) to public attention and appreciation!
Thrilled to have attended Yeats Bedford Park Project's annual lecture in London this evening with the brilliant Fintan O'Toole and the lecture titled:
National Pride & National vanity: Yeats, Art & patriotism.
Huge congratulations to @YeatsBedfordPk @CLDallat @AnneMarie_Fyfe
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Thrilled to have attended Yeats Bedford Park Project's annual lecture in London this evening with the brilliant Fintan O'Toole and the lecture titled:
National Pride & National vanity: Yeats, Art & patriotism.
Huge congratulations to @YeatsBedfordPk @CLDallat @AnneMarie_Fyfe
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🎻 🎹 Violinist Doris Kuo returns for an afternoon concert this Sun 18 Oct at 3pm, along with up-and-coming pianist and singer Henry Tozer: an opportunity to see enormously talented young artists right here in #ChiswickW4! Tickets £10, students £5. Stay for ☕️ and homemade 🍰
