Tony Earnshaw
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Scriptwriter, poet, novelist, sax player, choral singer
I’m just an ordinary bloke.
So, when I see there’s folk who haven’t got enough,
I care. I give a stuff.
This seems to mean I’m woke.
I’m just an ordinary bloke.
So, when I see there’s folk who haven’t got enough,
I care. I give a stuff.
This seems to mean I’m woke.
My issue is about neatly packaging a belief system and expecting me to buy the package. I can’t do it.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
My issue is about neatly packaging a belief system and expecting me to buy the package. I can’t do it.
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Voices lifted together in song – from Japanese tradition to Twickenham, with a bit of Handel thrown in
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On Song
Music and song are subjects I’ve written about before but they’re in my mind this week as at a meeting of my local poetry group we were looking at song in poetry - and challenged to write some kind of...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Voices lifted together in song – from Japanese tradition to Twickenham, with a bit of Handel thrown in
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‘What we can’t know is liberating … long live vagueness, muddle, compromise – and liberation and inspiration.’
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November 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
‘What we can’t know is liberating … long live vagueness, muddle, compromise – and liberation and inspiration.’
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Gay or straight, black, brown, or white, male or female or neither, she simply didn’t care…because it didn’t matter to her and she didn’t think it should matter to anyone else.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Gay or straight, black, brown, or white, male or female or neither, she simply didn’t care…because it didn’t matter to her and she didn’t think it should matter to anyone else.
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Parkin pigs and plot toffee, trick or treat and mischief. Which traditions persist?
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November 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Parkin pigs and plot toffee, trick or treat and mischief. Which traditions persist?
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A poem for today
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October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A poem for today
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Poets from Keats to Yeats have written about Autumn but how many of them swept leaves?
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October 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Poets from Keats to Yeats have written about Autumn but how many of them swept leaves?
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I’ve just posted my latest memoir section as part of my paid Substack. My free substack continues every Friday. Autumn thoughts this week. Meanwhile,here’s the memoir link - tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/more-of-th...
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More of the memoir
Progress on the memoir is slow, mainly because of all the competing demands on time - the weekly blog, the band and choir practise, walking and pickleballing.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I’ve just posted my latest memoir section as part of my paid Substack. My free substack continues every Friday. Autumn thoughts this week. Meanwhile,here’s the memoir link - tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/more-of-th...
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Diwali this year seems both welcome & needed, as much as a prayer for the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance as for any sign of that victory.
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Celebrating light
I’ve been thinking about Diwali, celebrated this week.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Diwali this year seems both welcome & needed, as much as a prayer for the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance as for any sign of that victory.
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The thoughts and questions you can almost see emerging from the minds of people after the show like a cloud of ideas eager to be grasped…
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October 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The thoughts and questions you can almost see emerging from the minds of people after the show like a cloud of ideas eager to be grasped…
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‘You can’t be human all by yourself’ - wisdom from Africa
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October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
‘You can’t be human all by yourself’ - wisdom from Africa
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On time, enjoying the moment, and the joys of retirement
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October 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
On time, enjoying the moment, and the joys of retirement
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www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge... - on one of my poetry heroes
Liverpool poetry trailblazer Brian Patten dies aged 79 | Write Out Loud
Liverpool poetry trailblazer Brian Patten dies aged 79
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October 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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On rotten tomatoes, rants, and the misuse of flags
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September 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
On rotten tomatoes, rants, and the misuse of flags
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Beanstalks and Othering, used cars and titans of industry
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September 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Beanstalks and Othering, used cars and titans of industry
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Connections made and restored – faith in love
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September 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Connections made and restored – faith in love
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To quote the director ' fifteen years after it was first written, and ten years after Damn Cheek first performed this version – this powerful play still retains its poignant and apposite topicality.' More info on www.ticketsource.co.uk/damn-cheek-p... - you do need to be near Dorking of course...
September 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
To quote the director ' fifteen years after it was first written, and ten years after Damn Cheek first performed this version – this powerful play still retains its poignant and apposite topicality.' More info on www.ticketsource.co.uk/damn-cheek-p... - you do need to be near Dorking of course...
The power of theatre, the move to address a difficult past, and the continuing evidence of man’s inhumanity to man. Much food for thought
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September 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The power of theatre, the move to address a difficult past, and the continuing evidence of man’s inhumanity to man. Much food for thought
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I’ve written before about it being okay to feel joy, even when there is so much suffering in the world. Actually, it’s more than okay, it’s a need.
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August 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I’ve written before about it being okay to feel joy, even when there is so much suffering in the world. Actually, it’s more than okay, it’s a need.
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Finding the silence between the notes the importance of community
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August 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Finding the silence between the notes the importance of community
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A focus on peace
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August 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
From the pain of separation to finding new pastures
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August 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
From the pain of separation to finding new pastures
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a reminder that we have a choice
to find the positive or to fall
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to find the positive or to fall
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August 1, 2025 at 8:43 AM
a reminder that we have a choice
to find the positive or to fall
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to find the positive or to fall
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Happily ever after? – “she told her father again and again
she’d bravely enter the monster’s lair”
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she’d bravely enter the monster’s lair”
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July 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Happily ever after? – “she told her father again and again
she’d bravely enter the monster’s lair”
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she’d bravely enter the monster’s lair”
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Today’s Pied Piper – his uses and dangers…
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July 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Today’s Pied Piper – his uses and dangers…
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