ARVON BLOG
Poetry competition Third Prize: Joan Lennon – “Itis and Labyrinth”
18 Jul 2019 / News
Itis and the Labyrinth
(Labyrinthitis: a self-limiting disorder of the inner ear)
Hitchcock angles start the pinwheel.
My room…
Peter Papathanasiou – My two writing births
18 Jul 2019 / Lumb Bank
I’ve had two writing births in my life: the birth, and the rebirth. My time at Arvon in 2013 was part…
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How many Arvon courses does it take to write a published novel? – Juile Pike
11 Jul 2019 / My Arvon Journey
I know, it’s an impossible question to answer. For many the answer is of course none, but in my case the…
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Molly McGrann – My Arvon Story
04 Jun 2019 / #Arvon50
Being a writer is a solitary business: we sit and write for hours. We all do it differently, in different places,…
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Sketching Hurst Impressions with My Long White Cane
29 May 2019 / The Hurst
Sketching Hurst Impressions with My Long White Cane
by Loraine Howard
My eyes tell lies and shutting…
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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.…