Mick Gowar
@mickgowar.bsky.social
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Children’s author, poet, retired academic, secretary Ted Hughes Society, occasional musician, and supporter of #MyChurchofEngland.
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Latest @tedhughessocety.blueskysocial podcast: fascinating insights from Ann Skea - greatest living authority on myth, legend and magic in Ted Hughes - into Hughes's poems about swallows: shows.acast.com/the-ted-hugh...
Ann Skea: Ted Hughes's Swallows | The Ted Hughes Society Podcast
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Latest @tedhughessociety.bsky.social
podcast at our host Acast: shows.acast.com/the-ted-hugh... Brilliant
@piecorbett.bsky.social talks about his work outside the classroom, as an inspector of schools, as an English advisor, and as a freelance consultant and the continuing influence of Hughes.
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Latest @tedhughessociety.bsky.social podcast at our host Acast: shows.acast.com/62c2ed4409d2...? The wonderful @piecorbett.bsky.social talking about influence of Hughes on his teaching and writing, his early years as a teacher, and writing and performing partnership with @brianmosespoet.bsky.social
Ted Hughes and Education 4: Pie Corbett | The Ted Hughes Society Podcast
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Delighted to announce latest @tedhughessociety.bsky.social podcast: brilliant Di Beddow on how Ted Hughes poetry and ideas influenced her teaching and details of Hughes’s own very brief career as a teacher at Coleridge Secondary Modern School in Cambridge. On Acast open.acast.com/public/strea...
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Thank you Frank. Northern magic realism - still unrecognised and uncelebrated.
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On Friday 7 March I'm going to be speaking at Moyse's Hall Museum about Suffolk Folklore - you can get tickets here: www.moyseshall.org/whats-on/det...
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That would be great. Could you remind me of when you’re in London, please?
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Or perhaps an annex of the Unseen University of Ankh-Morpork?
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Tom, I fear that ‘Hit me up’ maybe lost in translation over here - unless, of course, this is intended as a thibboleth?
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Just had an exchange with Diane Purkiss who suggests ‘Faeology’ and in tribute to her #TroublesomeThings I suggest Tribulatiology, both bastardised terms but as she said how appropriate given the nature of fairies.
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Understand perfectly you’d had enough of getting up before dawn and driving across the Pennines…but Saturdays are simply not the same without Croissant Corner.
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Second Ted Hughes Society podcast on Ted Hughes In Education: Max Raab MA student at Darlington
on creating project 'Who or What is Crow?' shows.acast.com/the-ted-hugh... Also available on Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple.
https://shows.acast.com/the-ted-hughes-society-podcast………