The Success of the Second Oxford Indie Book Fair &why it is needed.
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04, 2022
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02, 2022
My friend Weimin He’s highly recommended online workshops
Weimin says ‘I spent an hour and a half in the print room to study Raphael’s original drawing. I tried to draw the same size as the original and I presume Raphael might have spent no more than 1.5 hours
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02, 2022
The Food of Love. Cooking up a Life …coming soon
Gosh .. Claret Press has started to promote my memoir! https://www.claretpress.com/ Do you like the cover? Food_of_Love_Cover_ Writing the lives of the 118 Oxford castaways and the fictional memoir of artist Little Winter in Brushstrokes in Time made me start
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01, 2022
Sudeep Sen in Oxford
While he was in Oxford, I was privileged to host the acclaimed Indian poet Sudeep Sen. He is in the UK to promote his latest anthology Anthropocene. It is endorsed by one of the world authors that I most admire-Amitav
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11, 2021
I’m thrilled with the endorsements on the new cover of Brushstrokes in Time.
A brilliant,compelling read. Shrenik Rao Editor of the Madras Courier Whether describing how students were ‘sent to the countryside’ or how, after Mao died, young artists hung their experimental work outside the national art gallery, Vetta is always
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09, 2021
Remembering and Re- Thinking the Future. Bernardine Evaristo says her mother was an honorary black person
The death of George Floyd is an image of brutality that appears on an American turn table which keeps going around and around for centuries. We have no reason in this country to be complacent but there are significant differences.
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07, 2021
Sculpting the Elephant: An Alternative Town and Gown Tour of Oxford
Shepherd.com is an easy to use well presented new site . Ben Fox it's creator asked me to make recommendations on this subject. https://shepherd.com/best-books/oxford-and-where-town-meets-gown Going with the theme .. here is Sculpting the Elephant: An Alternative Town and Gown Walking
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07, 2021
Get WALKING!
Before the Oxford Castaways books and my three novels, I produced a book of ten mostly five mile circular walks for KOA. They were originally led by Jack and Margaret Ibbott, who I thought had walked every inch of Oxfordshire’s
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07, 2021
The Jericho Art Fair July 24: artist Weimin He and I
Do you remember this? Radcliffe Observatory Quarter artist in residence, Weimin He, had 60 works of art on hoardings and my poem about the site was also on one. Tower of the Winds is a fabulous record of his six
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06, 2021
Shepherd.com: An exciting new website for authors
Ben Fox had an idea that a punter interested in a topic, let's say China, will go onto a website and browse books about it which are recommended by respected writer . The punter then possibly buys the book or