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Pompey Speak

By Richard | July 21, 2022July 21, 2022 by Richard

Something for your diary on Sunday 24th – a programme on Radio 4 about the Portsmouth dialect, which is different to all others in the UK. Poet Maggie Sawkins, winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, explores the language, dialect and poetry of her native Portsmouth in Hampshire. Maggie meets fellow poets Denise Bennett and Liz Neal at the city’s Historic Dockyard, to ask whether the Pompey dialect has been relegated…

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David Jones on the BBC

By Richard | March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 by Richard

A quick post today to mention the BBC 4 documentary on David Jones’ In Parenthesis, which I watched last night (it’s still available on the BBC’s website and on catch-up if you have it). I thought it was excellent. Follow the link below to watch it on the BBC website. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07kt9pj Regular readers of my blog (all three of you!) will know that In Parenthesis was one of the first books I referenced in my…