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Heavy shoes
It’s August 1960, a world in black and white; the British summer echoes to the sounds of The Shadows’ Apache , Hank Marvin’s echoey,...
colinfell6
Aug 7, 20246 min read
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Between the election and my hopes
One thing I have in common with my friend Prince Hamlet of Elsinore is a rather pessimistic view of elections. Hamlet felt he’d been...
colinfell6
Jul 4, 20245 min read
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Cloud-capped towers
Orpheus, his heart beating a little faster, turns and looks back; Eve, her hand trembling ever so slightly, stretches out a hand, for a...
colinfell6
Jun 27, 20245 min read
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Hamlet again; marvellous distempered
Don’t you get bored, teaching the same thing? It’s the question I usually get at parties when people realise I’m a teacher. That’s...
colinfell6
Jan 10, 20245 min read
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Pebbles in the water
It’s August 1960, a world in black and white; the British summer echoes to the sounds of The Shadows’ Apache, Hank Marvin’s echoey,...
colinfell6
Jan 2, 20244 min read
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Rage, wrath and fury
“F*** off you ******* fat *****.” These bellowed words, minus their editorial asterisks, hung strangely in the scented, pristine early...
colinfell6
Jun 9, 20234 min read
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Piano
I’m thrilled that Simone Hellier and John Thomson have recorded John’s setting of my poem Piano, along with the other four poems detailed...
colinfell6
Apr 16, 20233 min read
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Looking for a good read? Try this new novel- murder, love, and seals, and all in West Cornwall
Novels set in Cornwall are hardly unusual, swarming like summer emmets across booksellers’ shelves; but good ones which captivate and...
colinfell6
Nov 3, 20223 min read
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Four of my poems
Here's a link to the concert performance from October 2022 https://youtu.be/UJ2Y1Rk_qg0 For a long time, I wrote no poetry. Like, I...
colinfell6
Oct 19, 20225 min read
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Deliver us from Truss
Not even Liz Truss’s greatest admirers- and she must have some, despite becoming Prime Minister without the support of the electorate, or...
colinfell6
Sep 5, 20224 min read
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making the grade
Tomorrow morning, nearly 800000 young adults will finally discover the outcome of those exams they took way back in the early summer, in...
colinfell6
Aug 17, 20221 min read
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The Fallof the House of Sirob
It was with a sense of keen anticipation, yet not, I recognised, unmixed with dread, that I approached Pugin Towers, the home of my old...
colinfell6
Jul 27, 20226 min read
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Henry Platagenet and the Special Military Operation
Two shadowy, gowned figures stand together in close converse; they’re apprehensive- there’s a problem, and a possible solution- but will...
colinfell6
Apr 26, 20224 min read
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Cancel the 1812
Throughout that summer, the city waited uneasily; its citizens aware of the rumours of invasion. But surely it would never happen? Surely...
colinfell6
Mar 12, 20224 min read
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Sirob the Sybarite
For it appeared to Sirob the Duke as though he had remained, entombed, incarcerated and immured within the stony chambers of the...
colinfell6
Jan 19, 20224 min read
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Get Back!
It’s 1970, and I’m probably huddled on the floor by the dining room fireplace, unlit despite the sharp Northern winter, with my portable...
colinfell6
Jan 10, 20224 min read
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The Victorians & Us
I suppose most of us have photographs of Victorian ancestors tucked away somewhere- in a trunk, in the attic, chilled by the winter...
colinfell6
Jan 4, 20221 min read
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Passport to Pimlico
My first passport was to me a thing of wonder. Robust, and black, it felt like a small book, expressive of a nation state which still...
colinfell6
Nov 28, 20214 min read
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Sexy Grammar
In her right hand, right being traditionally associated with correctness, orthodoxy, skill, dexterity, the young woman is holding a...
colinfell6
Aug 31, 20215 min read
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Under my vine
One unknowable and undated day in about 1860, someone stood amidst the bloody abbatoirs of Penzance’s Bread Street, surveyed the rough...
colinfell6
Aug 19, 20215 min read
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