A Nightingale sang in a West Sussex park
Writing about nightingales - that's a lot of literary and musical baggage to contend with. But, hey, let's give it a go! So, earlier in...
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Mike Gould
- Apr 14
- 3 min
The power of the short
Bear with me, the gratuitous Spring picture has a purpose and it's not just an excuse to ramble on about Wordsworth again. Ok - it is a...
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Mike Gould
- Mar 12
- 3 min
The voice of a visible woman - in memoriam, Jean Gould.
My mother Jean passed away at the start of February. Whilst I would not presume to entirely look inside another's mind, especially one so...
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Mike Gould
- Dec 31, 2020
- 3 min
A moment of hubris at the end of a crazy year
I was determined to go into the sea before the end of the year and cross off 'swim in December' from the resolutions I didn't make at the...
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Mike Gould
- Nov 6, 2020
- 3 min
Find the rhythm in running and words
Let me say that I still hate jogging, unlike my wife who used to hate it and now loves it. This is not me taking a contrary position to...
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Mike Gould
- Sep 14, 2020
- 3 min
Give it time and space
On a boring beach, and how Wordsworth teaches us to give experience time and space.
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Mike Gould
- Jul 27, 2020
- 3 min
It's complicated - when is a forest not a forest?
How 'Wilding' has thrown me off the forest track.
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Mike Gould
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Sea swimming with Kylie
I have been reading The Guardian's list of the best 100 Number One singles in the UK. Definitely worth checking out - but before you do,...
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Mike Gould
- May 15, 2020
- 1 min
Ode to Belly Mujinga
A poem from me about rail worker Belly Mujinga, who died after an incident at Victoria.
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Mike Gould
- Apr 23, 2020
- 3 min
Past the wit of man to say
My thoughts on the failure of language to express our fears during Covid-19.
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Mike Gould
- Mar 24, 2020
- 1 min
A poem about the space between us
In response to a call-out from Heather at Director's Cut Theatre, I wrote this short poem for actors to perform. I'll upload any videos...
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Mike Gould
- Feb 1, 2020
- 3 min
On liberty, Paul Eluard, and a century of exchanges
Shortly after the end of World War Two, a young English woman travelled to France as part of an exchange to stay with a French family...
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Mike Gould
- Jan 18, 2020
- 2 min
A message from the Long Man
The end of 2019 was difficult, the domestic mirroring the political & I’m glad to see the back of it. Good too to get out in the fresh...
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Mike Gould
- Nov 26, 2019
- 1 min
Bohemian Tragedy
Today: a poem. And a brief apology for the image. All I want to say this week is that I’m embarking on writing another collaborative...
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Mike Gould
- Nov 14, 2019
- 2 min
New stories of the flood
Some thoughts on floods, George Eliot and climate deniers
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Mike Gould
- Oct 29, 2019
- 2 min
The wild artistic spaces are there - if we knew where to look
There's a whole world of creative endeavour out there - you just need to look for it. My own playwriting has shown me that.
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Mike Gould
- Oct 3, 2019
- 1 min
Starburst: a poem for National Poetry Day
On a day in which borders are at the centre of our political discussions again, and the weather has dipped to the extent that any...
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Mike Gould
- Sep 25, 2019
- 2 min
Chasing fame in a Paris cemetery
So how did we end up here? We're standing in the driving rain by the side of the much-visited grave of a 21 year old, whose unlucky fate...
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Mike Gould
- Sep 11, 2019
- 1 min
You’ve got a friend, thankfully
They say owners begin to look like their dogs, but based on this picture it seems we begin to resemble our friends too. A judgement on...
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Mike Gould
- Aug 23, 2019
- 2 min
A time of reckoning
I take a reckoning on the journey of my writing life and find I face an overgrown path, metaphorically speaking.
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