ARVON BLOG
Julie Summers – Give it a Chance
28 May 2019 / #Arvon50
When you go on an Arvon writing course anything can happen. Shutting sixteen people in a remote house with talented, generous…
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Andrew McMillan – #Arvon50
21 May 2019 / #Arvon50
When I was just about to graduate from undergraduate study, Arvon began to run a scheme, connected to an anniversary, where…
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Rebecca Goss – Teenagers, friendship and a week at Lumb Bank
16 May 2019 / #Arvon50
In March 2014 I spent five days at the beautiful Arvon Lumb Bank site and it was (unusually) basked in sunshine…
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Karin Altenberg – Lumb Bank
07 May 2019 / #Arvon50
When I first arrived at Lumb Bank, the taxi driver who delivered me from Hebden Bridge told me how lucky I…
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Nicky Bull – Lumb Bank Thursday
30 Apr 2019 / #Arvon50
Lumb Bank Thursday
by Nicky Bull
They’re in tonight
The Lumb Bank lot
Lured out like a charmer’s…
Mark Emery – An Atom of Sweet in Mud
23 Apr 2019 / #Arvon50
Arriving home, somewhat wacked, leaving Lumb Bank was not so much a flurry of goodbyes but a time to ponder many…
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Tim Martindale – Oak
09 Apr 2019 / #Arvon50
OAK
By Tim Martindale
I am oak.
I am one and I am many.
The sentry guarding the…
Wendy Cope – Arvon 50
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…
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The day that remembered itself – Jennifer Liston
26 Mar 2019 / #Arvon50
The day that remembered itself
Sylvia Plath is buried in St. Thomas’s churchyard in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire.…
Jerwood/Arvon Mentees Announced
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…
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Fred D’Aguiar – Arvon at 50
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…
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Gavin Dimmock – Finding Love at Lumb Bank
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…
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Arvon appoints Andrew Kidd as Chief Executive and Artistic Director
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…
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Jean Atkin – A Shropshire Dimpsey, in Hurst Rough
29 Jan 2019 / #Arvon50
A Shropshire Dimpsey, in Hurst Rough
Lamp to our path, that dandelion globe has made
full moon above the…