#art #shetlandyarns #cushendall #cockerspaniels #harbours #rhubarbicecream #galleries #ferries #le-marais #chiswick #memoir #nightsky #poetry: making it new with 'No Far Shore: Charting Unknown Waters' (Seren 2019), making it happen at #coffeehousepoetry!https://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mv3jqekksk2sFilling up fast with less than four weeks to go, so do book now for this unique autumn event! === tue 6 oct, 7.30pm, £15 fintan o'toole on 'national pride & national vanity: yeats, art & patriotism' intro: wb yeats bedford park project founder cahal dallat info & booking: https://tinyurl.com/fintanotoole-on-wbyeats09 Sep 2026 12:23 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3jqekksk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mutbcpowp2226.20am, from the window, Chiswick. Splendid display & a good omen for the kick-off of this morning's new course, 'Cloudwatching: Magic, Mood & Memory.' #coffeehousepoetry 🌥️06 Sep 2026 05:31 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mutbcpowp222https://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3muotziypcc2fOn a high, as ever when we head into a new 7wk creative course, especially when I've spent summer searching skies, cloudy or clear, & researching into the invasiveness of clouds in poetry & prose, literature & life, memory & imagination, art... see: https://tinyurl.com/cloudwatching-this-sun-6-sep art: marlene llanes04 Sep 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3muotziypcc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mucko6cbuc2uGood news... for those who were unable to book tickets for 'A Strange Bird: John Hewitt & the Glens of Antrim' at 6pm, as it sold out in 48 hours. We're now giving an additional presentation at 3pm same day, Sat 12 Sep. Details & booking link (only 14 places left): https://tinyurl.com/hewitt-and-antrim-glens-3pm30 Aug 2026 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mucko6cbuc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3muc5q366lk2lStarts next Sunday (6th Sep), a new project for autumn when, as Keats puts it, 'clouds bloom the soft-dying day'. 'Cloudwatching: Magic, Mood & Memory': 7 weeks with your head in the clouds, & clouds working imaginative wonders in your head... see: https://tinyurl.com/cloudwatching-from-next-sunday art: marcin kołpanowicz30 Aug 2026 10:12 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3muc5q366lk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mu4yvuw7js2iPreview on Tuesday of 'De Gaulle: Résistance' with Simon Abkarian as the Quixotic hero of Anthony Bourdain's epic masterpiece. So many wins & losses, strategic & moral dilemmas, vying with love of family & unshakeable belief in France. Superb film! In cinemas from today, Friday.28 Aug 2026 09:02 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu4yvuw7js2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mtj4vuk5u222Excited to be invited by Lir Arts Festival (in Cahal's home town of Ballycastle) to give this talk on Belfast poet John Hewitt (who made my Cushendall home town his 'chosen place'). Sat 12 Sep, John Hewitt & the Glens of Antrim, with Anne-Marie Fyfe & Cahal Dallat see: https://tinyurl.com/hewitt-in-the-antrim-glens20 Aug 2026 11:21 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtj4vuk5u222https://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mtdsd6z7ss2aFiery sunset pours gold on a cool Thames yesterday evening: though with hindsight I can see that overshadowy cloud-mass clearly presaging a rare event, an overnight fall of rain, something London's lacked for, seemingly, forever... 💦💦 (Strand on the Green, Chiswick)18 Aug 2026 08:28 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtdsd6z7ss2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mtbv4frxnc2dCan you capture a cloud? After months researching these ephemeral condensations & their ubiquity in art, literature & lore, poetry & prose, music & myth, I'm on cloud nine now that 'Cloudwatching', (new 7-wk course, see https://tinyurl.com/capturing-clouds-from-6th-sep) is ready to run! (art: ceslovas cesnakevicius)17 Aug 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbv4frxnc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3msgak7uyxc2dOnly one 'BetweenTheLines' before end of the year. As always, limited workshop places & as the course is very popular, if you'd like to be in the group, you'd need to book now, see http://tinyurl.com/only-one-betweenthelines === fri 16 oct—sat 5 dec, £280L 7-wk #coffeehousepoetry masterclass with Cahal Dallat06 Aug 2026 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3msgak7uyxc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3ms66sfgwh22gThe John Hewitt Tour: great poetry day out in beautiful Antrim Glens (Sat 15 Aug, £45) Coffee, talk by Dr Frank Ferguson, lunch, coach tour, & poetry readings at places Hewitt loved. Organised by John Hewitt Society & Old Church Centre, Cushendun Info/Booking: https://theoldchurchcentre.com/.../the-john-hewitt-tour.../03 Aug 2026 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms66sfgwh22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mrwr75y6ck27Delighted, this bright morning, to receive June Wentland's 'Factory of Light' (from Fox and Star Books). And thanks, June, for mentioning #CoffeeHousePoetry classes in acknowledgements, both my themed courses & Cahal Dallat's #betweenthelines. A pleasure working with you. Congratulations! 💐31 Jul 2026 10:38 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrwr75y6ck27https://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mrwoptmg7s26Violinist Anaïs Tran Ngoc leads the 'Northanger Abbey' cast in a final merry dance (despite the Gothic castle background) after Catherine Morland's fiction-fuelled imaginings have led her a merry dance through Austen's fictional abbey: Moving Parts Theatre brilliant at Strawberry Hill last night!31 Jul 2026 09:54 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrwoptmg7s26https://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mrromkr2xs2pMulberry tree, planted when this was Hogarth's rural retreat from 1749. Private view yesterday of Hogarth Art Prize Finalist Exhib (to 6 Sep): 70 shortlisted works including by my Chiswick artist friend Marguerite Horner. Thanks, Marguerite, for invite, & thanks, Hogarth's House for a great evening!29 Jul 2026 10:09 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrromkr2xs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mrmuzgugxk2qBooking now for what promises to be a unique event! === tue 6 oct, 7.30pm, £15: 'national pride & national vanity: yeats, art & patriotism': the 2026 wb yeats bedford park lecture with fintan o’toole introduced by: cahal dallat venue: st michael & all angels booking: http://tinyurl.com/fintan-o-toole-and-yeats27 Jul 2026 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrmuzgugxk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mrewy7apuk2yMichael Andrews's awesome 7'x6' vision, his final work, 'The Estuary', is my highlight in Chichester's Pallant House Gallery 'Sense of Place' exhibition (& not just because his similarly imposing 'Cabin', in a Tate Britain retrospective, inspired my £5,000-Cardiff-Prize-winning poem 'Curaçao Dusk'!)24 Jul 2026 08:34 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrewy7apuk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mr5t5asdi22pJust releasing details of the promised new project, 'Cloudwatching: Magic, Mood & Memory', 7-wk course, booking now to run from Sunday 6th September — so there's a silver lining at summer's end to inspire your autumn writing. see: http://tinyurl.com/clouds-from-6-sep-new-course art: 'head in the clouds', alicia savage21 Jul 2026 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr5t5asdi22phttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mpqcrkcwi22nSunsetting cool of Kensington's Leighton House garden at Irish Heritage's summer concert on Wednesday evening with, after the interval, amazing cello playing by 2026 instrumental-bursary winner Seth Collin on a new work ('Neamh-Gleann') by composition-bursary winner Ferdia Ó Cairbre.03 Jul 2026 10:14 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqcrkcwi22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mpqcokygbc2nStanding guard, with tail-feather/plumage competing with William de Morgan's staircase blue & the arabesque wall leading to Frederic Leighton's Arab Hall decorated with tiles from his travels. (Exploring the fantasy that is Leighton House before Wednesday's Irish Heritage summer concert.)03 Jul 2026 10:12 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqcokygbc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mpqcmq22yc2nSpellbinding playing as Julieanne Forrest (violin) & Luke Lally Maguire (piano) open Wednesday evening's Irish Heritage summer concert with the romance from Shostakovich's score for 1955 Soviet film, 'The Gadfly'. Full house in the famous 'Artist's Studio' at Leighton House.03 Jul 2026 10:11 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqcmq22yc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mpgcwvl7ck2vA summer writing project — a re-run of a course that generated so much introspection, recollection, exploration & creativity! sun 5 jul—sun 30 aug: 'home truth: architecture & longing': a 7-week #coffeehousepoetry creative-writing workshop series see: http://tinyurl.com/summer-project-starting-sunday art: colin thompson29 Jun 2026 10:50 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpgcwvl7ck2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mozjt6ni4k2ySwopping blistering city pavements for the deep green shade of a vine-laden Dorset garden, & a fresh coastal breeze... 🌿🌿24 Jun 2026 08:48 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mozjt6ni4k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mozhgdnoe223Two of you have asked for a summer writing project: as neither has done 'Home Truth' I'm doing a special extra run of that course so... sun 5 jul—sun 30 aug, 'home truth: architecture & longing': 7-wk creative-writing workshop series see: https://tinyurl.com/a-summer-writing-project (art: dominique appia)24 Jun 2026 08:06 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mozhgdnoe223https://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3moufo7xpxs2rHappy looking bunch setting off in yesterday's noonday sun from Kelmscott House along the Thames riverbank to Chiswick Eyot (the islet that reminded #Yeats of Innisfree) & on to his other 'Land of Heart's Desire' #BedfordPk with Cahal Dallat (centre, striped shirt). www.wbyeatsbedfordpark.com/#walk22 Jun 2026 07:51 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3moufo7xpxs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mos5qnt5us22Two of you have asked for a summer writing project: as neither has done 'Home Truth' I'm doing a special extra run of that course so — sun 5 jul—sun 30 aug, 'home truth: architecture & longing': 7-wk #coffeehousepoetry creative-writing workshop series see: http://tinyurl.com/a-summer-writing-project art: john pitre21 Jun 2026 10:24 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mos5qnt5us22https://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mos5c6lekc2eMusic for a summer evening: #coffeehousepoetry's Cahal Dallat plays a little light-classical/Latin/swing🎵before opening our #Yeats event with 'Down by the Salley Gardens' on the Blüthner grand🎹in St Michael & All Angels, Bedford Park: 'The Deep Heart's Core', Poetry Reading with Imtiaz Dharker21 Jun 2026 10:16 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mos5c6lekc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3moq7vjhmxk2dBookseller Carol Kosse's table (at Thursday's #Yeats Birthday Reading with Imtiaz Dharker) stocked with a range of Imtiaz's poetry collections. Carol's shop, Everybody Reads www.everybodyreads.com, on Chiswick High Rd is 'a place to pause, breathe, browse, learn, discover, connect, giggle and grow'20 Jun 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3moq7vjhmxk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3moq7ojbctk2dMeeting special guest Imtiaz Dharker outside St Michael & All Angels, Bedford Park, in glorious evening sunlight for our Thursday night 'Deep Heart's Core' #Yeats Birthday Poetry Reading for Bedford Park Festival charities coffeehousepoetry.org/readings/20 Jun 2026 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3moq7ojbctk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3moq7m7727c2dPoets arriving for midsummer drinks🥂&🎵 music before Thursday's 'Deep Heart's Core' — Yeats Birthday Poetry Reading with Imtiaz Dharker: that's Henry Fajemirokun, Jennifer Nadel, Warren Czapa, Tessa Anslow, Heather Moulson, Barney Ashton-Bullock, not to mention the dog coffeehousepoetry.org/readings/20 Jun 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3moq7m7727c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social/post/3mondn7r3ps22This Sun 21 Jun, join poet Cahal Dallat on the perfect 'midsummer-afternoon's dream', along the Thames river-bank by the isle that set the young #Yeats off on 'a whole day's dreaming' (of 'Innisfree' & honey-bees), by Wm Morris's hive... Just two places left! Full info at https://tinyurl.com/yeats-midsummer-walk-on-sunday19 Jun 2026 12:26 +0000at://did:plc:ecnefdr3ulv472zuum4uu4cx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mondn7r3ps22