What is The Christmas Dinner? It’s a Christmas Dinner for care leavers. Why not call it The Care leavers Christmas Dinner then? Would you want to come if it was called that!? Hey I’m asking the Read more [...]
My morning tweets have been made into art by Felix Anaut. Visual Music and Poetry opens at The Menier Gallery at 51 Southwark Street, London, SE1 1RU on 20th September until 1st October. Open each Read more [...]
The past 18 days I've mainly been writing the first episode of a series called Origin Stories for BBC radio 4. (It's 318 days since my installation as Chancellor.) Then there's been the publication Read more [...]
Being Chancellor at The University of Manchester is one of the highlights of my life. It must be similar for students as they graduate towards or from this great institution. I was voted for by Read more [...]
American John Magee, who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, was 19 when he wrote High Flight in August 1941. It is 75 years since then. I made a report about him (and the poem) in 2007 for BBC Read more [...]
Here is the first time the word "aggressive" was documented in my life. It reads "he could very easily become extremely aggressive". There is no evidence presented to indicate how. The second Read more [...]
This blog covers the 21 days which follow 24th July. It's 301 days since my installation as Chancellor at University of Manchester. We begin this blog with the second night at the proms. In the photo Read more [...]
I am going to talk about the surge of work in the arts specifically for the care leaver. I hope this may help Anyone who is working with care leavers. Please read about the story of the rights Read more [...]
I am in Washington DC and I've just heard the distressing news that Hardys Well in Manchester is to be demolished along with the much loved eponymous poem. It is the first public art poem in what Read more [...]
This blog covers the past 15 days of a total of 280 days since my installation as Chancellor at University of Manchester. These are the highlights. I will shape my blogs in this way until the first Read more [...]