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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

'Liberté', part#2 of De Gaulle biopic, proves as gripping, dramatic, poignant as part#1: the courage of Free French army & the Resistance (pic), both held together by De Gaulle's love of France. Plus Paul Éluard's own voiceover of his poem 'j'ecris ton nom' as Paris is liberated. A tremendous film!

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Last couple of places on the repeat of my new course 'Cloudwatching: Magic, Mood & Memory' which starts next Sunday, 18th for 7 weeks. We're already at module six of the first run with lots of imaginative inspired cloudwriting! details/booking info: tinyurl.com/cloudwatchin... art: thor lindeneg

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Re the creative-writing course I mentioned in this post, 'Cloudwatching: Magic, Mood & Memory', which ends soon, there is a repeat of the course starting next Sunday 18th Oct for 7 weeks, details & booking info here: tinyurl.com/cloudwatching-sun-18th-oct

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Delighted that Anne Carson, whose genius I've long admired (pic: Poetry Society Lecture) has been awarded the Nobel Prize : her mercurial shape-shifting hybridity really suits my current 'Cloudwatching' course theme & this Sunday's wk#6 module features 'Tuesday I became clouds...' from 'Wrong Norma'

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sat 24 Oct, 10am, £85/£75: Faber Readers’ Day: 'Translations' by Brian Friel with Cahal Dallat Join this day-long session exploring 'Translations', led by poet & critic @CLDallat Venue: The Bindery, Hatton Garden, EC1N 8HN Booking: faber.co.uk/product/tran... Pic: Studio Theater, Washington DC

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Almost a full house so do book soon for Fintan O'Toole's #Yeats lecture – plus Q&A, bar & book signing etc === tue 6 oct, 7.30pm, £15: fintan o'toole delivers the 2026 wb yeats bedford park lecture: 'national pride & national vanity: yeats, art & patriotism' Info/booking: tinyurl.com/fintanotoole...

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers': impossible to disagree with Anne of Green Gables's response to the deep Prince Edward Island woods that inspired LM Montgomery (whose childhood home I explored on my #NoFarShore odyssey). Pic taken last week on Coast Road in Cushendall. 🍁🍂

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Real sense of late-summer uplift in London as those neighbouring cedar branches reach for that first-of-October blue sky. 💙

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sat 24 Oct, 10am, £85/£75: Faber Readers’ Day: 'Translations' by Brian Friel with Cahal Dallat Join this day-long session exploring 'Translations', led by poet and critic, @CLDallat at Faber, The Bindery, EC1N 8HN (Pic: National Theatre) Booking: www.faber.co.uk/product/tran...

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just as clouds can suddenly race across the skies my new clouds course has flown by & I haven't gotten back to those who've asked re a repeat – so here it is! * sun 18 oct—sun 13 dec: 'cloudwatching: magic, mood & memory', 7-wk creative-writing course see: tinyurl.com/cloudwatching-from-sun-18-oct

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fully booked initially but have just had a cancellation – only 'BetweenTheLines' course this autumn, fri 16 oct—sat 5 dec, £280, 7-wk #coffeehousepoetry masterclass with Cahal Dallat, full details & booking info @ tinyurl.com/betweentheli... (art: 'les zébres', jean-marie gitard)

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Three-quarters of 250-seat capacity booked already with 14 days to go, places much in demand for this unique lecture + Q&A, book signing, bar etc === tue 6 oct, 7.30pm fintan o'toole delivers the 2026 Yeats Bedford Park lecture @StMichaelsW4 info/booking: tinyurl.com/THE-event-of...

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

'Every leaf speaks bliss to me, / Fluttering from the autumn tree.' Emily Brontë 🍁🍂

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thanks💐Katy English (centre, with Jane Beattie, right) for invite to Friday's private view🍷of Deborah Brown (1927-2023) Cushendun exhibition: love this work from same period as 'Lucy Brown' (1952) which Deborah let me use as 'The Ghost Twin' cover illustration. theoldchurchcentre.com/.../deborah-...

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

'A country road, a tree..." (two actually, so not a true Beckett evening!) View from the Glenville gate lodge (which poet John Hewitt & wife Roberta rented from the mid-Forties on Tiveragh, 'the fairy hill', above Cushendall) looking east as clouds sink over the Sea of Moyle, to the Mull of Kintyre.

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Leaving Magherintemple House, Ballycastle, the Casement family's ancestral home, after a marvellous day with super audiences for our two Hewitt/Glens talks, & special thanks to to Patrick & Anne Casement for opening up their home, & to Lir Arts Festival's Angela, Philip, Brian & Jo for organising💐

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Filling 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: tinyurl.com/fintanotoole...

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

6.20am, from the window, Chiswick. Splendid display & a good omen for the kick-off of this morning's new course, 'Cloudwatching: Magic, Mood & Memory.' #coffeehousepoetry 🌥️

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

On 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: tinyurl.com/cloudwatchin... art: marlene llanes

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Good 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): tinyurl.com/hewitt-and-a...

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Starts 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: tinyurl.com/cloudwatchin... art: marcin kołpanowicz

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Preview 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.

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Excited 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: tinyurl.com/hewitt-in-th...

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Fiery 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)

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Can 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 tinyurl.com/capturing-cl...) is ready to run! (art: ceslovas cesnakevicius)

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Only 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 tinyurl.com/only-one-bet... === fri 16 oct—sat 5 dec, £280L 7-wk #coffeehousepoetry masterclass with Cahal Dallat

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The 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: theoldchurchcentre.com/.../the-john...

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Delighted, 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! 💐

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Violinist 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!

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Mulberry 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!

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Booking 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: tinyurl.com/fintan-o-too...

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Michael 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'!)

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Just 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: tinyurl.com/clouds-from-... art: 'head in the clouds', alicia savage

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Sunsetting 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.

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Standing 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.)

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Spellbinding 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.

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A 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: tinyurl.com/summer-proje... art: colin thompson

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Swopping blistering city pavements for the deep green shade of a vine-laden Dorset garden, & a fresh coastal breeze... 🌿🌿

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Two 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: tinyurl.com/a-summer-wri... (art: dominique appia)

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Happy 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/#walk

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Two 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: tinyurl.com/a-summer-wri... art: john pitre

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Music 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 Dharker

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Bookseller 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'

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Meeting 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/

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Poets 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/

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This 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 tinyurl.com/yeats-midsum...

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

thu 18 jun, 7 for 7.30pm, £10: 'the deep heart’s core': bedford park festival — yeats-birthday poetry evening with special guest imtiaz dharker, plus guest poets, hosted by #coffeehousepoetry's Anne-Marie Fyfe & Cahal Dallat Booking: tinyurl.com/yeats-birthd... Info: tinyurl.com/poetry-event...

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Almost fully booked since last Sunday's post, just one place available now on the 'midsummer' edition of #BetweenTheLines... *fri 19 jun—sat 8 aug: #betweenthelines 7-week #coffeehousepoetry masterclass with Cahal Dallat see: tinyurl.com/starts-this-... art: 'sunnyside series', gary haggquist

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Edna O'Brien, at one of our Yeats-Birthday poetry celebrations, rhapsodised as the 'light of evening' fell through the great west windows, invoking the spirit of WB #Yeats: more (& booking): tinyurl.com/the-light-of... 'the deep heart’s core' — yeats-birthday poetry evening with guest imtiaz dharker

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Anne-Marie Fyfe @anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Running a repeat of the current course as some didn't get a place: so several already allocated on this re-run, but three places still available. * fri 19 jun—sat 8 aug: #betweenthelines #coffeehousepoetry masterclass with Cahal Dallat see: tinyurl.com/another-chan... art: 'urban skyline', stockcake

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