Ad administrative mind
Author: Trevor Glyn Locke
Novels
Does the Novel Have a Future? Tuesday 19th April 2022. Introduction Another question on Quora (an online forum.) Another of my answers. Having seen a question about the future of the novel, I felt inclined to respond. What I wrote in my response, is set out below. I then go on to develop this theme … Continue reading Novels
News 2022
Saturday 26th March 2022 Times are hard Energy costs are spiralling. Inflation is rising. Many things are getting more and more expensive. The only thing that is not going up is my income. I am having to make cuts. In order to stay afloat, financially, I am having to cut back on spending. I say … Continue reading News 2022
Microhistory
The Minutiae of Everyday Life Sunday 7th November 2021. Preface Daily life involves a wide range of tiny, minor details. Not just for me but for everyone. Small things have to be done every day to ensure our survival, health and comfort. Our fitness, sustenance, cleanliness and domestic duties are based on routines that have … Continue reading Microhistory
Local Music
Promoting Local Music Events 22nd October 2021 by Carol Leeming and Trevor Locke Today, 22nd September 2021, Carol Leeming posted a comment on her Facebook feed: 'Now I am really looking at how local music, musicians are promoted & supported in LESTA'. Carol's post was about how local musicians can promote and advertise their shows … Continue reading Local Music
Poetry using the Iambic Decameter
9th October 2021 There was a time when I was particularly keen on writing poems using the Iambic Decameter (in which there are always ten syllables per line.) Here is one called Finity, from 21st June 1966: It seems that all existence is a sphere,one single, finite, universal globe.This is a thought, at first, that … Continue reading Poetry using the Iambic Decameter
Chance
a poem for National Poetry day, 2021 Long ago, when I was just a boy,my life was organised and planned,ambitions set with heart so full of joy,my ship set sail, full-rigged and manned But then the world around did other things -it intervened in aspects of my life -brought down my sails and clipped my … Continue reading Chance
Poetry 2020
Here I publish a selection of the poems I wrote in 2020. Zhivago song, 2020 The Ural's icy blastsswept leaves along the streetslike souls of dead peasants brown and dry.Green they were in springbut all that is born must die.Yuri listened to the soundand thought it carried with itthe tinkling of a balalaika's stringlike icicles … Continue reading Poetry 2020
The interruptive society
The interruptive society
LMH5
Leicester music history 2010 and 2011