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Callum James: poet, writer and bookseller. 'The South Downs. Paths of the Dead' (Broken Sleep Books) Queer. Story. Landscape. Magic.
Portsmouth, UK
Joined November 2012
Had a really good day today running my "Extreme Restraint" poetry workshop in which we sampled the delights of cut-up, found, redaction and erasure poetry. Lovely bunch of participants who really threw themselves into it.
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Strange grafitti in the chancel of St Martin on the Walls in Wareham.
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Swimming under this moon a few days ago. This photo is unfiltered, it looked just like that.
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A lame fox. Back leg coathangered from its hip, nose as low as the flapping foot. A broken guide, a wounded instinct.
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At the end of the month I have to give a bit of a talk about Radclyffe Hall's poetry so I decided I finally ought to read The Well of Loneliness. so far so good one chapter in!
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Kathleen Raine, often at her best with a short beautiful thought on which to meditate, with an image from the natural world to ground it.
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Would love to see you at this poetry workshop I am running in a couple of weeks time. Contact the bookshop to book a place. Please share widely.
Extreme Restraint.A poetry workshop with Callum James.Sunday 20th July, 10am-3pm. £20. What happens to your voice when the words aren’t yours to begin with? Extreme Restraint is a poetry workshop that invites writers to explore the creative power of limitation.
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A huge stand of Rosebay Willowherb behind and over some of the graves in Highgate Cemetery.
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Part two of my pilgrimage around the Magnificent Seven Cemeteries in London, Highgate West. Near tropical today, but cooler than than being out in the sun.
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A definite theme in the bookshop in Hastings today!
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The net houses at Hastings in broiling heat today.
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Rempstone Stone Circle in Dorset. Despite being quite close to the road it is a small sanctuary, a sacred space of quiet and depth. Bronze age. Made, uniquely, of local sandstone not sarsens. Half destroyed in the 18th century.
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Come on people! Visited the stunning Rempstone Stone Circle below Nine Barrow Down in Dorset today and found is nearly shrouded in nylon and plastic. Removed the worst of it. The shells, stones, feathers, fine, whatevs but this other stuff would have stayed in the locale forever.
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Was delighted to pick up this early impression of Kathleen Raine's first poetry collection today. Imagine having your first book illustrated by Barabara Hepworth!
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I would probably have bought this book on 'Brazillian Voodoo and Spiritism' anyway, but opening it up to discover the posthumous Jake Stratton-Kent bookplate basically turns it into a relic!
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Sky like a painted ceiling this evening as the last rays of the solstice sun brushed the clouds.
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I am going to be running a poetry workshop called "Exreme Restraint" in July. Please share it around a bit if you are one of my poetry tweeps.
Extreme Restraint.A poetry workshop with Callum James.Sunday 20th July, 10am-3pm. £20. What happens to your voice when the words aren’t yours to begin with? Extreme Restraint is a poetry workshop that invites writers to explore the creative power of limitation.
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