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Brilliant review in The Times Literary Supplement of our Unknown Soldier

By - David
Posted on November, 19, 2014

The Times Literary Supplement, ‘the leading international forum for literary culture’, has published a celebratory review of ‘An Unknown Soldier’. You can read the review here: Against Unremembering In the review David Collard puts our poem into context, saying: Henningham’s mordant wit and avant-garde flair is part of another poetic tradition stretching back to Wyndham

Remembrance Day Talk at Poetry Library – Digest and Protest

By - David
Posted on November, 13, 2014November, 13, 2014

I gave a short talk in the Southbank Centre on Remembrance Sunday. Sir Andrew Motion began the day with a reading of Wilfred Owen’s Dulce Et Decorum Est, and the centrepiece was a performance of Britten’s War Requiem, chiefly featuring players representative of the age for military service. There’s a link at the end for

Remembrance Sunday at Southbank Centre, HFP talk at 1.15pm tomorrow

By - David
Posted on November, 8, 2014November, 8, 2014

The Southbank Centre have asked us to take part in their Remembrance Sunday, Andrew Motion: Dulce et Decorum est, by doing a 15 minute talk and short Q&A in The Saison Poetry Library at 1.15pm. We will be touching on the role of the Arts in Remembrance and Memorials, those decent British iconoclasts – the

Opening Event at Poetry Library, Southbank Centre Nov 7th: An Unknown Soldier

By - David
Posted on October, 24, 2014

An Unknown Soldier: An Exhibition by Henningham Family Press There will be a FREE Opening Event on Friday 7th November, 7.30pm at which we will be giving out a small, free limited edition print, and reading an extract from An Unknown Soldier with the assistance of James Wilkes and Erica Jarnes. Booking is essential by

Artists in Public: Zuidervaart’s defence of Arts funding pt.3

By - David
Posted on October, 23, 2014October, 23, 2014

You are an Artist. You graduated from art college more than two years ago, but opportunities seem to be drying up, or at least are a bit chaotic. Occasionally local things come up, but you fear involvement with ‘community art’ will effect your credibility with the gallery system. You haven’t achieved gallery representation yet and

Evil Subject Number Three – Zuidervaart’s defence of Arts funding pt.2

By - David
Posted on October, 20, 2014October, 20, 2014

So far Zuidervaart has argued that the Arts are needed, but who should pay for them? And what is the economic argument for doing so? This is what Zuidervaart calls his Public Justice Premise, the second premise of the three found in his book ‘Art In Public’. Zuidervaart argues that Civil Society should be given

“Something Nice, Like An Otter” – Zuidervaart’s defence of Arts funding (pt.1)

By - David
Posted on October, 13, 2014October, 14, 2014

Imagine this scenario. Two children come running into your kitchen, screaming and shouting over each other. The first child is shouting ‘He pushed me! He snatched my scooter!’ And the second one is shouting ‘It’s mine, it’s not his. He shouldn’t be touching my scooter!’ Now on the face of it, these children are totally

No Country For Old Capitalists: WG Sebald and Agricultural Idealism

By - David
Posted on September, 30, 2014

The recent collection of WG Sebald’s biographical writings, entitled A Place In the Country, invites us to consider the influence of six great writers that were dear to Sebald during his life, the implication being that he too belongs on the list. The six greats are ‘tormented souls,’ and it is ‘their absolute failure to

Be First Up Against The Wall (With Your Concierge Key)

By - David
Posted on September, 19, 2014July, 10, 2015

I was embarrassed by the cover of a DVD I borrowed recently from my local library. The DVD cover design was totally different from the one I had seen online, giving the friends I was with the impression I had just hired a Rom Com starring George Clooney, when the cover I had seen online

Devolution Union Flag

By - David
Posted on September, 16, 2014September, 17, 2014