Apart from my acting work this month, I have also managed to get some other creative work published. The first is a poem, Shallow Grave in the River Gipping, published on YouTube (Black Shadow Lit) this month, and inspired in a workshop and talk by the writer James Jenkins author of Parochial Pigs and Sun-BleachedContinue reading “Published projects in July”
Category Archives: Poetry
Theatrical fun and games. My latest role in Harry’s Bar: A Touch of the Blarney.
A touch of the Blarney, by Suzanne Hawkes, has just completed its run at The Two Sisters Arts Centre in Trimley. It was part of the ‘Harry’s Bar’ series and this year’s theme was an Irish one. Suzanne chose to write about the poet Yeats and his troubled relationship with his sometime girlfriend and muse,Continue reading “Theatrical fun and games. My latest role in Harry’s Bar: A Touch of the Blarney.”
The past few weeks!
A quick update: here’s what I have been up to for the past few weeks. As you know, I played Mary Boleyn and Elizabeth Barton In The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey. Here are a couple more shots from that showing me as Mary Boleyn and a similar painting of her: After the showContinue reading “The past few weeks!”
A link to my books
The Camera Obscure is a collection of supernatural, dystopian and magical realist stories which surprise and challenge, sometimes amuse. This collection holds up a mirror to the darkest sides of the human psyche, reflecting universal themes and experiences with a nod to the Victorian Gothic era. Tourist to the Sun is a collection of poetryContinue reading “A link to my books”
In memory
‘The echo of a memory sits somewhere on the edge of today’s crisp outline and the fragile minute fleetingly touches fingertips to hold hands with the past.’ from ‘On the Disused Airfield’ by Virginia Betts (copyright, Virginia Betts, Tourist to the Sun, 2022, all rights reserved.) In remembrance of an uncle on a birthday.
My first time on a live Twitch stream for World Poetry Read Aloud day!
Just had a fantastic time on the twitch stream of ‘Sailing Ocelot’. What a fantastic host! She was generous enough to allow me to perform 4 of my poems which I think the audience enjoyed. I wish I had learned them all, as you can’t look at the camera properly when you read them, butContinue reading “My first time on a live Twitch stream for World Poetry Read Aloud day!”
Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friend.
Today is December 8th, and I wanted to remember John Lennon. In 1980, on this day, he was shot outside his home in New York. I remember it well. I was fairly young, but I do remember that he was important to my parents, and I was brought up on the music of the Beatles.Continue reading “Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friend.”
A modern fairy tale.
Feeling inspired. A little poem: A Modern Fairy Tale. Envy is a mean-eyed bitch; a talentless witch, who sits in her empty coven, cooking up futile spells in her barren oven. Jealousy is her small-minded daughter; a shapeless lump, who sits hunched in her infertile cave, fingers poised with her poison pen; follows Envy toContinue reading “A modern fairy tale.”
Today.
Today’s post is in memory of Uncle Richard, who left the earthly life one year ago today. A man with whom I enjoyed chatting about music, guitars, other instruments, lyrics and zany comedy. He could pick up any instrument and play it, and I was waiting for him to try out my violin. What IContinue reading “Today.”
for the 11th hour..
So, a while back I had this poem published in Tourist to the Sun. I wrote it on the 11th November 2019, and it gives a nod to the the fact that as a child I actually lived next door to a man who fought in the First World War. There are few of hisContinue reading “for the 11th hour..”
Virginia Betts 