Rochester Literature Festival

  • Potlatch Collective Poem #13

    I lost my lfe in my second life A post life where I was free The sun rose every day anew A bright etchasketch moment witnessed by the milkman Two pints. On the doorstep. She’d asked for more. Just like the day before I thought I’d seen that couple Before…

  • Medway Monday: Rochester Sweeps Festival

    May Day bank holiday weekend brings to us the first of Medway’s major festivals. This is our Artistic Director Phil, with Border Morris side, Wolfshead and Vixen – more photos will follow on Jaye’s blog later, where you can also see pictures from the Jack in the Green Awakening Ceremony…

  • ME1 TV to showcase Medway writers

    There’s a wonderful opportunity coming up for local writers and poets with the newly founded internet TV channel, ME1 TV, based in Rochester. With many years of experiences in all areas of the media, including TV, film, music and theatre, ME1 TV aim to showcase all aspects of Medway and…

  • Medway Monday: Potlatch Collective Poem #12

    The grey cloud let the rain come down The rain clouds dropped the raindrops on a clown Rhyming with its nature, down Fiddlesticks she said In a manly voice Gruff and loud, booming for all to hear The train steamed past It was an electric fast Coming through the golden…

  • ME4 Writers: The Word Shed at Fuse Festival

    ME4Writers present their collective, collaborative project ‘The Word Shed’ at Fuse Medway Festival. Come and visit The Word Shed, where inside, instead of seeds, pots and a lawnmower, and that drawer full of things that you might need one day, you will find yourself in a blossoming, inspirational world of words. During the festival,…

  • Potlatch Collective Poem #11

    The 10 o’clock train was running late Steam bellowed, clock hands ticked The page on the table was blank, unwritten Taking a pen determined to fill a void His name was Jeffery Lloyd Or should I say, my name was Jeffery Lloyd Which might be somewhat misleading. This is a…

  • Fabulous opportunity for music lovers at UCF

      Day School: The Development of the Orchestra   Date: Saturday 27 April 2013 | 10am-4pm   Venue: University Centre Folkestone   This fascinating day school explores the development of the orchestra through history, with a study of the instruments and ensembles, and the idea of orchestration. The sound of the…

  • Medway Monday: Potlatch Collective Poem #10

    Snow. But the sun was shining; then came rain Drawing the curtains would cover the pain The photo was colourful in its frame But Picasso looked on, his eyes aflame And captured love mismatched To my heavy heart The song of sorrow plays its tune As the flower laid car…

  • Potlatch Collective Poem #9

    Wow! Jeepers creepers! Who would have believed it? For it was hard to take in The way was not clear In the abyssal darkness mists and daemons leered She was afraid but pretended not to be. The internal thump of her heart, witnessed only by her. This is a collective…

  • Medway Monday: Potlatch Collective Poem #8

    Image by Maggie Drury Who writes the lines around your eyes? Yesterday was a tiring day Sleep came quickly like drowning And she dropped deep into its well, the sides too slippery to grasp She was reminded of a horror film she had seen once Bloody, unsubtle, unsettling Unsettling, unsubtle,…

  • Potlatch Collective Poem #7

    The lemons fell copiously, making a thud They have their own yellow language Sunflowers shine in the summer sun Bees have a field day Their life at its height for these few weeks He hoped it would never end or fade in his memory So one snap, caught forever the…

  • Potlatch Collective Poem #6

    Fingers blanched, frozen, tingling with anticipation I stood braced against the rail. The snow railing against me, wiping me out. Leaving me nothing to talk about Your silence offended me, taciturn as ever We live as one but might as well be on different planets We orbit something, the universe…