Welcome to the website and blog of
Trevor Locke of Leicester
An author and writer of novels, poetry, and articles about history and a journal-keeper.
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2024
For National Poetry Day 2024, I wrote a poem called ‘Counting‘.
May. I write about travel.
As a lover of music, I write about outstanding concerts. Here is my latest piece, about classical music, performed by the Bermuda-born artist Jude Richardson.
You can read my stuff about rock music on the Music in Leicester magazine.
2023
Thursday, October 5th. My poem for the UK’s National Poetry Day, follows its theme – Refuge.
7th September. I write about developments in the arts and how these might affect writing.
12th August 2023. My other website – artsinleicester – now defaults to this website.
4th July 2023. My other website – artsinleicester.co.uk – has been discontinued. Calls to its domain name are now being redirected to this site, permanently, or until the domain name expires. Most of the articles on the old arts website have been posted to this site.
Novel – The Road to Ancona
My novel is being published on this blog. The Road to Ancona was the first novel I wrote. It tells the story of a group of English teenagers going on a package holiday to Italy. Each instalment will be listed and I have created a homepage for the section.
Having finished the publication of my novel – The Road to Ancona – I offer my thoughts about it and the process of self-publishing.
The first part of the series (the Prologue) has been published on this blog. Here it is: The Road to Ancona, Prologue.
Episodes of the novel are being published daily. The last instalment has been published today. Now the complete novel is published on this blog.
See all chapters of the novel on my contents page.
Reader’s comments are invited on Facebook
This is my first novel; but it is not my first book. Earlier, I published a non-fiction book on this blog. It was about Housing Policy.
Eating and Cooking
I look at how we choose what we eat.
Published today, an article about making Soup.
Content Channels
Articles are now being grouped together in channels. Each channel will have its own home page.
All channel home pages will be gathered together on the contents page.
Recent Literary works
Food and cookery. A new series of articles.
I talk about having an ‘administrative mind’ and how this works in practice.
I consider whether novels have a future.
News 2022. I have a new post setting out the news this year.
The rock music scene in Leicester.
2022 All change, please.
Friday 30th September. Time for a change. The long-awaited plans are about to happen. I have started a new hosting service for this website (not on WordPress). The domain name will still be the same. But the site will be fresh and new with lots of new material.
2022 marks an important anniversary for me. Twenty years of writing about rock music in Leicester. This is something I should celebrate. Between now and November, I need to complete a series of essays about my experiences of going to gigs, visiting venues and festivals and (above all) following the bands and singers that have made Leicester an amazing centre for live music.
Novels
Novels of mine are getting attention this year. I am editing my third novel – The Streets of London. I am also writing journal articles daily. No shortage of ideas. If anything, too many. My folder /Work in progress/ never seems to get any shorter. Take for example a new article ‘The Future of the novel’; or my piece about the Russian invasion of Ukraine; or my essay about truth and reality. No shortage of material there. I must start publishing them on this blog.
2021
7th November. I write about the microhistory of everyday life.
22nd October. An article about the publicity of local music gigs prepared with Carol Leeming.
Generally
This year will be a year of change, as far as this blog is concerned. Over the past few years, I have maintained a number of blogs and it is my intention to rationalise my platforms. I want to have only one blog and published on it all that has already appeared on other blogs, including the Archive for Arts in Leicester, and Locke Family Tree.
The object of this consolidation is to run only one website and to reduce the cost associated with having several sites. Progress on this project will take place in 2021 but in doing this I will not delete anything of my work from the Internet.
Poetry
A poem for National Poetry Day 2021. My Poem Chance is published today on this blog.
9th October 2021. Poetry using the Decameter. Finity from 1966.
2020
Looking back. Selected highlights of 2020.
Thursday 1st October.
Today is National Poetry Day in the United Kingdom. I am editing my collected anthology of poems in volume two. I also wrote a poem to celebrate today and posted it on my Facebook Page.
5th August. Do not interrupt me while I talk about interruptions and how our society is suffering from a constant flow of them.
March
25th March. In my latest article, I look at the years 2007 to 2009 in my series on Leicester’s Music History.
10th March. I publish the third instalment of my series about Leicester’s Music History.
7th March. Read my piece about music education in schools.
February. Published the second instalment of my series. Dealing with the rise of the Internet and its effect on live music. Read about the series as a whole or read the first instalment.
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This page updated 19th June 2024.