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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - Lots of news! - 1) Unconference 28/2/26</image:title>
      <image:caption>It was a great success! We had a total of nine workshops on all sorts of subjects to do with creativity, writing and storytelliing: ‘Comedy writing’, ‘Creating good dialogue’ and ‘Mind mapping’, to name but three (I ran one on writing haiku and senryū, which seemed to go down pretty well). People brought loads of different dishes in for the pot luck lunch - my hummus variations garnered many compliments!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - Lots of news! - 2) Wordplay Tomar Writers Club 8/3/26</image:title>
      <image:caption>I led the first part of this meeting with tips and tricks to help with reading your work out loud. It’s the second time I’ve done this workshop - we did fast and slow readings, high and low pitched, smiling and frowning - it was great fun! We also did a bunch of vocal workouts and tongue-twisters in both English and Portuguese.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - Lots of news! - 3) My birthday - 27/3/26</image:title>
      <image:caption>For my 64th birthday (not ‘when’, it’s ‘now’), we stayed at the Magic Hotel for a night in Nazaré, my favourite place in Portugal. It was warm and windy and the waves weren’t big enough for the mad surfers, but it was beautiful, and we had a marvellous lunch at a wonderful restauarant called Ólareu. I thoroughly recommend it!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - Lots of news! - 4) Big News!</image:title>
      <image:caption>…and I’m saving the biggest, bestest news until last. After a loooong period of thespian inactivity, I’m going to be an actor again! In a feature film. In Sardinia. Back in 2021, a Czech student had some conversational English lessons with me. Eliška, who was (and still is) a screenwriter and TV and film director, was seeking to improve her fluency and confidence in speaking English, and I was happy to help. We got on really well, and I got the chance to see her short children’s film, ‘The Terrifying Story of Eliz’ (which was nominated for best short film in the 2022 Czech Lions Film Awards). It was darkly comic, in a similar vein to Roald Dahl - and I loved it! Anyway, time passed, students come and go. Eliška was working on some Czech TV and was really busy, then she reappeared after having been on holiday with her sister in Sardinia.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-23</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>This Saturday! The first Wordplay Unconference!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Apocalyptic, or what? This is just outside our nearest town, Santiago da Guarda. Puts me in mind of the posters for the last TV version of Stephen King’s The Stand. Google it.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - New Year, New Stuff! - Me. Reading out in public. (pic by Dixon Bordiano)</image:title>
      <image:caption>On Saturday the tenth, I was in Caldas da Rainha, being the first guest host for the original and genuine Wordplay Writers Club at the Prontos. Impact Village. I ran a workshop centred round overcoming the terrifying prospect of reading your work out loud in public. I mean, it’s all very well, spending your time sweating over getting the words in the right order on the page - but what about when you have to present it to your friends and peers? Or to a crowd of strangers? It can be kind of nerve-wracking, and so I wanted to help my fellow writers feel a little more comfortable about standing on a stage and reading to an audience. We did exercises concentrating on rhythm, volume, pitch and timbre in breakout groups (there were fourteen of us), then returned to try out some vocal workouts and tongue-twisters. It was great fun, and there were some excellent recitations in the second half. The next meeting in Caldas is on the fourteenth of February and the prompt is ‘Soliloquy’. The very wonderful Dixon took some photos. a massive thank you to Jim and Jazz for giving me the opportunity to do this. I loved it.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Deep in thought. (pic by Dixon Bordiano)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Me. Reading out loud in public. Again. (pic by Jazz)</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - Happy New Year? - So, last week…</image:title>
      <image:caption>…one of my poems (Balloons) was featured in Mike O’Brien’s Christmas post on Sixty Odd Poets. This week, he’s only gone and done a New Year one! It’s called Out With the Old - In With the New and - wonder of wonders - there’s another one of my poems (Handover) in there. There are also a bunch of excellent poems other than mine, of course - all wonderful and all different perspectives on the peculiar obsession we have with the passing of one year and the beginning of a new one. Have a peruse, see what you think.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - Season’s gratings… - I reckon this is Krampus. It’s also the frontispiece for The Dark Side of Christmas.</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of the first poets I bumped into when I started using Bluesky was a chap called Mike O’Brien. He’s a Northerner like me, and runs a marvellous Substack called 60 Odd Poets, which has introduced me to many new and interesting poets. I was lucky enough to be number 75. Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because, Mike’s compiled a bunch of excellent poems by various authors celebrating the dark side of Christmas, turning the spotlight on the Yuletide villains - and he’s included one of my poems, which is called Balloons. There’s a bit of a story behind this poem. Balloons was inspired by Christmas Day in Funchal last year, when I was sitting having a coffee in the Town Square, watching a young, long-faced chap tethered to a massive cluster of novelty balloons, being blanked by every tourist - even the kids. There were clearly at least a hundred other places he’d rather be. And that’s when my back story brain kicked in. Incidentally, Papai is the familiar name that a Portuguese child would use for Father, like Daddy, I guess. It’s a warm and kindly sounding name, but in the poem he is anything but a kindly father figure.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - Something’s happening… - No mês passado, eu disse a vocês sobre o Wordplay, o clube de escritores que tenho frequentado aqui em Portugal há um ano, e como tem sido maravilhoso e inspirador — e como eles publicaram uma antologia de textos (incluindo três dos meus) inspirados nos temas mensais que surgem nas reuniões. Bem, aqui estão mais algumas novidades: a partir de janeiro, vou abrir uma nova filial do Wordplay Writers Club em Alvaiázere, juntamente com o Jim, um dos membros fundadores do clube e um tipo simpático em todos os aspetos (além de ser um escritor fantástico!). Então, se quiser passar uma noite divertida com jogos de palavras, histórias e poemas, e estiver nas proximidades de Alvaiázere no dia 5 de janeiro, entre as 18h e as 20h, por que não vem até ao The Hub Community Space? Tudo o que precisa trazer é caneta e papel (ou o seu telemóvel ou tablet) — e a sua imaginação!</image:title>
      <image:caption>E provavelmente um casaco. Afinal estamos em janeiro.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - Something’s happening… - In other news… …in a terrible attack of massive self-indulgence, I’ve made myself a business card.</image:title>
      <image:caption>I think this came about because I have been asked a few times recently ‘What do you do?’ to which I’ve answered ‘Er, I’m a poet, I guess. I have a website. Let me write it down for you.’ Cue fumbling for a pen, and grumbles of ‘What does that say? Is that an ‘n’?’ etc, etc, ad nauseum. Having this means I don’t have to go through that rigmarole anymore. If it ever happens again, that is. I hope it does. I’ve got 250 of the little blighters. And I should say the photo of me, by the wonderful Dixon Bordiano, is one I particularly like. Also, it was cheap.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Front cover of Rites &amp; Trials poetry anthology, published by The Broken Spine and edited by Alan Parry</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - The Writhing Book Launch - in pictures - Jazz with the book!</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - The Writhing Book Launch - in pictures - Jim and Jazz, our wonderful hosts</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - The Writhing Book Launch - in pictures - Me, reading The Kraken's Apprentice</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - The Writhing Book Launch - in pictures - David, reading Almoço de Amigos</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - The Writhing Book Launch - in pictures - Heather Marie, reading Gap Life</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog Stuff - The Writhing Book Launch - in pictures - Dixon, reading Do You Want the Chainsaw</image:title>
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