Showing posts with label IpArt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IpArt. Show all posts

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Fiesta Time (12): IpArt Short Story Competition Winners Announced in Spiegel Tent

Photo shoot with Second Prize Winner, Ed Broom (3rd from left)

David (Gill) on the left was taking part in the proceedings with UCS colleague, Gill Lowe.

Ed Broom with the Mayor of Ipswich
M.J. Hyland and Georgina Wroe
M.J. Hyland congratulates Ed Broom

Trying out the plush seating inside the Spiegel Tent in Christchurch Park!


Congratulations to winner, Ric Hardacre!


P.S. You can read a feature on the short story as a genre here

Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Fiesta Time (10): IpArt Festival at Arlington's with Heidi Williamson

Heidi Williamson

We had a terrific evening at Arlington's in Ipswich last night at the IpArt PoetryFest. Poet-in-residence, Heidi Williamson, read from her Bloodaxe collection, Electric Shadow. She also shared some new work with us and treated us to a highly polished, enjoyable and informative reading. Thanks are due to the organisers, Fred Ellis of PoetryAnglia and Doug Coombes of Ipswich Community Radio.

Fred Ellis at the microphone ...
David (Gill) reading his poem, 'What did Hadrian Say?' ...
There was plenty of time for poetry chat!
I read my poem, 'Moonshine', about the Snowy Owl that landed in Zennor in Cornwall in 2009. I read this poem for the first time at the Swansea International Poetry Festival in 2011. It has just been published in the current edition of Poetry Cornwall | Barhonyeth Kernow (ed. Les Merton).