Nick's Gift
My first poetry anthology is available to order through lulu.com. Alternatively email or Facebook messenger for a copy...
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Jacob Brandon
Apr 5, 20192 min read
PRESS RELEASE - New L.I.V.E Event Celebrates Torbay’s Talented Speakers and Performers
Artizan Gallery announces a new series of mixed bill performance events which look to celebrate and recognise the voices of their...
Jacob Brandon
Apr 2, 20192 min read
L I V E - Announcing Spoken Word Performer!
For more information head to: www.facebook.com/events/566991097117990/ Coming soon to Artizan Gallery, L I V E is a new event series that...
Jacob Brandon
Mar 31, 20182 min read
Cornwall to New York City: One giant leap for me kind
When I moved to the city that never sleeps, unless it snows, I knew it was for the right reasons. I was in love, and still am, with a man...
Jacob Brandon
Feb 16, 20182 min read
Literature Works presents Word on Tour at Torbay Libraries
Literature Works presents 'Word on Tour', an Arts Council funded 26-date live literature tour of the region’s libraries, in celebration...
Jacob Brandon
Feb 16, 20184 min read
Poetry to Order, in the time it takes to boil an egg
You know you’ve hit on something when the responses are so varied. “God, you’re so brave! I’d be terrified!” “What a brilliant idea, how...
Jacob Brandon
Feb 12, 20182 min read
Shelley Szender: Headliner at Stanza Extravaganza Artizan Gallery Monday February 26th
Shelley has lived all her life in Paignton. Shelley first started writing Poetry as a Teenager. She would only show her Mum who suggested...
Jacob Brandon
Feb 11, 20182 min read
The Violet Hour at The Blue Walnut Cafe and Visiting Artists in Torbay February 2018
I called my reviews of Ian Beech's Poetry Island, at The Blue Walnut Cafe Chelston Torquay, The Violet Hour because of the feelings it...
Jacob Brandon
Oct 7, 20172 min read
How Poetry Made a Human
"A poet’s hope: to be like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere” WH Auden I starting writing poetry as a child and have kept...
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