John Harvey
@johnbharveywriter.bsky.social
Retired (?) writer, former teacher, small press publisher; interests inc. music, visual art, movies, Notts County, Spurs. "Blue in Green” New Poems, Shoestring Press April 2025
"But oh how my heart leaps up to think that never again shall I be harnessed to a long book."
Virginia Woolf's Diary, June 1937
Virginia Woolf's Diary, June 1937
November 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"But oh how my heart leaps up to think that never again shall I be harnessed to a long book."
Virginia Woolf's Diary, June 1937
Virginia Woolf's Diary, June 1937
To the @BFISouthbank yesterday to see beautifully restored (?) print of Terence Davies' "The House of Mirth", based on the Edith Wharton novel, with terrific performance by Gillian Anderson. Front row, big screen - wonderful colour palette, so many telling close-ups!
October 31, 2025 at 10:38 AM
To the @BFISouthbank yesterday to see beautifully restored (?) print of Terence Davies' "The House of Mirth", based on the Edith Wharton novel, with terrific performance by Gillian Anderson. Front row, big screen - wonderful colour palette, so many telling close-ups!
Slowly making my way through the Jimmy Schuyler biography - at last (p. 135) getting past the details of early relationships/affairs and onto the work. Surprised - and, for some reason, pleased - to learn that one of his first inspirations/models was D H Lawrence.
October 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Slowly making my way through the Jimmy Schuyler biography - at last (p. 135) getting past the details of early relationships/affairs and onto the work. Surprised - and, for some reason, pleased - to learn that one of his first inspirations/models was D H Lawrence.
Admirer of Kelly Reichardt's work as I am, I was disappointed to be, well, disappointed by her latest film, 'The Mastermind'. Quite the best thing about it, for me, was the jazz-based score by trumpeter Rob Mazurek, featuring wonderful - beautifully recorded - drumming by Chad Taylor.
October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Admirer of Kelly Reichardt's work as I am, I was disappointed to be, well, disappointed by her latest film, 'The Mastermind'. Quite the best thing about it, for me, was the jazz-based score by trumpeter Rob Mazurek, featuring wonderful - beautifully recorded - drumming by Chad Taylor.
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10/27/60: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
D: Karel Reisz P: Tony Richardson
w/Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
Evening Standard: “Here is a chance for our own New Wave”
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Crowther, impressed: www.nytimes.com/1961/04/04/a...
@leftlion.bsky.social: leftlion.co.uk/features/201...
D: Karel Reisz P: Tony Richardson
w/Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
Evening Standard: “Here is a chance for our own New Wave”
More
Crowther, impressed: www.nytimes.com/1961/04/04/a...
@leftlion.bsky.social: leftlion.co.uk/features/201...
October 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
10/27/60: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
D: Karel Reisz P: Tony Richardson
w/Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
Evening Standard: “Here is a chance for our own New Wave”
More
Crowther, impressed: www.nytimes.com/1961/04/04/a...
@leftlion.bsky.social: leftlion.co.uk/features/201...
D: Karel Reisz P: Tony Richardson
w/Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
Evening Standard: “Here is a chance for our own New Wave”
More
Crowther, impressed: www.nytimes.com/1961/04/04/a...
@leftlion.bsky.social: leftlion.co.uk/features/201...
This week's painting ... 'The Viaduct' John Nash, Oil on canvas, 1916.
October 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This week's painting ... 'The Viaduct' John Nash, Oil on canvas, 1916.
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✨WORKSHOP TOMORROW✨
Writing the Uncanny with Pam Thompson
Mon 27 Oct, 7pm
Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...
In this workshop we will aim to look at ways we might ‘unsettle’ our poems looking at examples of ‘the uncanny’ from writing and art.
Writing the Uncanny with Pam Thompson
Mon 27 Oct, 7pm
Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...
In this workshop we will aim to look at ways we might ‘unsettle’ our poems looking at examples of ‘the uncanny’ from writing and art.
October 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
✨WORKSHOP TOMORROW✨
Writing the Uncanny with Pam Thompson
Mon 27 Oct, 7pm
Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...
In this workshop we will aim to look at ways we might ‘unsettle’ our poems looking at examples of ‘the uncanny’ from writing and art.
Writing the Uncanny with Pam Thompson
Mon 27 Oct, 7pm
Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...
In this workshop we will aim to look at ways we might ‘unsettle’ our poems looking at examples of ‘the uncanny’ from writing and art.
This week's painting - "Piccadilly" Albert Irvin, Acrylic on canvas, 2002
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
This week's painting - "Piccadilly" Albert Irvin, Acrylic on canvas, 2002
Oh, and did I omit to say funny, sometimes outrageously so. And the packed audience responded appropriately. Great stuff!
@parktheatrelondon.bsky.social @nptheatre.bsky.social
@parktheatrelondon.bsky.social @nptheatre.bsky.social
Rare (for me) theatre visit last night - Nottingham's New Perspectives Theatre Co.'s brilliant production of Jane Upton's "(The) Woman", directed by Angharad Jones at the Park Theatre, north London. Meaningful, funny - so well written and played. Just one week to go!
October 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Oh, and did I omit to say funny, sometimes outrageously so. And the packed audience responded appropriately. Great stuff!
@parktheatrelondon.bsky.social @nptheatre.bsky.social
@parktheatrelondon.bsky.social @nptheatre.bsky.social
Rare (for me) theatre visit last night - Nottingham's New Perspectives Theatre Co.'s brilliant production of Jane Upton's "(The) Woman", directed by Angharad Jones at the Park Theatre, north London. Meaningful, funny - so well written and played. Just one week to go!
October 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Rare (for me) theatre visit last night - Nottingham's New Perspectives Theatre Co.'s brilliant production of Jane Upton's "(The) Woman", directed by Angharad Jones at the Park Theatre, north London. Meaningful, funny - so well written and played. Just one week to go!
Thanks to my New Mexico correspondent for this, a fair haul of my work on the shelf in the Taos Public Library - far more that to be found in my local Camden/Kentish Town equivalent.
October 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Thanks to my New Mexico correspondent for this, a fair haul of my work on the shelf in the Taos Public Library - far more that to be found in my local Camden/Kentish Town equivalent.
One hefty, much anticipated volume purchased on Monday's visit to @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
One hefty, much anticipated volume purchased on Monday's visit to @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
Followed a course of lectures by Matthew Holman at the Courtauld recently - if they're anything to go by, this should be some good book!
**FRANK O'HARA BAT SIGNAL**
This Thursday, there will be a Zoom talk between Matthew Holman & John Yau about Holman's new book, "Frank O'Hara & MoMA: New York Poet, Global Curator," hosted by the Network for New York School Studies @nysnetwork.bsky.social. See here for details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/matthew-ho...
October 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Followed a course of lectures by Matthew Holman at the Courtauld recently - if they're anything to go by, this should be some good book!
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October 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Chuffed to find 'Fedora' (CWA Best Short Story Dagger 2014) in this collection, edited @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social, of the best stories by members of the CWA. Also present, Ann Cleeves, Simon Brett, Liza Cody, Peter Lovesey et cetera ...
October 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Chuffed to find 'Fedora' (CWA Best Short Story Dagger 2014) in this collection, edited @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social, of the best stories by members of the CWA. Also present, Ann Cleeves, Simon Brett, Liza Cody, Peter Lovesey et cetera ...
While in Whitby, many a flat white enjoyed at the estimable Mr. Cooper's ...
October 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
While in Whitby, many a flat white enjoyed at the estimable Mr. Cooper's ...
Here's a taster ...
October 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Here's a taster ...
Just back from a week in Whitby, North Yorks. Some tumultuous seas, amazing skies ... Pics now on my Blog ...https://straight75nochaser.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/a-week-in-whitby/
October 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Just back from a week in Whitby, North Yorks. Some tumultuous seas, amazing skies ... Pics now on my Blog ...https://straight75nochaser.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/a-week-in-whitby/
Clapping good wishes!
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October 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Clapping good wishes!
Haven't read the Sarah Hall yet, but if it's up to her usual standards it should be a string contender.
When a shortlist includes @cdrose.bsky.social and @benpester.bsky.social someone knows what they’re doing.
October 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Haven't read the Sarah Hall yet, but if it's up to her usual standards it should be a string contender.
New post just up on my Blog ... straight75nochaser.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/b...
Brian Patten 1946 – 2025
I first became aware of the poet Brian Patten in the late 60s, when, as one of the handily christened Liverpool Poets, his work, alongside that of Adrian Henri and Roger McGough, was published in P…
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October 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
New post just up on my Blog ... straight75nochaser.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/b...
The first issue - of thirty - of Slow Dancer poetry magazine and gently leaning on friends ...
October 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The first issue - of thirty - of Slow Dancer poetry magazine and gently leaning on friends ...
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We’re sorry to learn of the death of poet Brian Patten aged 79. Brian was the youngest of the trio of best-selling Mersey Poets who shot to fame in the early 1960s. (Photo: Brian Patten by Chris Gleave).
September 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
We’re sorry to learn of the death of poet Brian Patten aged 79. Brian was the youngest of the trio of best-selling Mersey Poets who shot to fame in the early 1960s. (Photo: Brian Patten by Chris Gleave).
Yes, Kate. Brian's work in that book, alongside that of Roger & Adrian, opened a sense of what was possible in poetry to many young people - that and how it might relate to their lives.
RIP Brian Patten. He featured in one of my favourite poetry books when I was a teen 😢
October 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Yes, Kate. Brian's work in that book, alongside that of Roger & Adrian, opened a sense of what was possible in poetry to many young people - that and how it might relate to their lives.