ARVON BLOG

09 Apr 2019 / #Arvon50

OAK
By Tim Martindale
 
I am oak.
I am one and I am many.
The sentry guarding the…

02 Apr 2019 / #Arvon50

When I began writing poetry in the early 1970s I didn’t know anyone else who wrote poetry or had a serious…

26 Mar 2019 / #Arvon50

The day that remembered itself
Sylvia Plath is buried in St. Thomas’s churchyard in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire.…

21 Mar 2019 / News

Arvon and Jerwood Arts are delighted to announce the 2019/20 cohort of Jerwood/Arvon mentees. These nine emerging writers were selected out…

19 Mar 2019 / #Arvon50

We called them the two Johns, John Moat and John Fairfax, after the two Ronnies, but out of awe at their…

12 Feb 2019 / #Arvon50

In May 1984, my O levels were finishing and I couldn’t wait to leave school behind and start my life in…

11 Feb 2019 / News

Arvon is delighted to announce that  Andrew Kidd  has been appointed as its new Chief Executive and Artistic Director. Andrew Kidd…

29 Jan 2019 / #Arvon50

A Shropshire Dimpsey, in Hurst Rough

Lamp to our path, that dandelion globe has made
full moon above the…

22 Jan 2019 / #Arvon50

I have just returned from Ted Hughes’ house in deepest greenest beautiful West Yorkshire. I’ve been teaching ‘Suitcase Stories’, a course…

15 Jan 2019 / #Arvon50

The Literary Life
I have found my place at Lumb Bank,
a wooden bench outside the communal dining room,
away from…

08 Jan 2019 / #Arvon50

It was an English teacher at school who first introduced me to the word ‘Arvon’, after having seen that creative writing…

03 Jan 2019 / #Arvon50

I was fortunate enough to be taken on a funded Arvon course by Apples & Snakes as part of The Writing…