‘Grief never goes away … it is almost as raw now as on the day it happened.’ A mother speaks about losing her son in Afghanistan. Lest we forget
In this month of Remembrance, Write Out Loud is giving space to poet and peace campaigner Antony Owen, who has interviewed the mother of a British paratrooper killed on active service in Afghanistan in 2008. Jeff Doherty, pictured, from Southam in Warwickshire, died in a Taliban attack in Helmand, just two days after his 20th birthday, along with Lance Corporal James Bateman, 29, from Staines, Mid...
12th November 2024
Accessibility? Must do better. Shaun Fallows looks back on his Arts Council-funded poetry tour
I could have kicked myself back in the summer when I realised I’d written the wrong date on the calendar for disabled poet and wheelchair user Shaun Fallows’ gig at the Poetry Jam in Durham. I’ve known Shaun for a few years online and on Zoom, but I’d never seen him live. Both of us were looking for...
12th November 2024
'We ride the electric horse without any reins': poet Shaun Fallows on disability and freedom
Shaun Fallows was born with cerebral palsy, and is a wheelchair user. Last year the Wigan-based poet appeared on a Channel 5 programme to talk about disability, and also published his first poetry col...
20th October 2024
