Poet Simon Armitage was speaking at Salts Mill, Saltaire, yesterday, ahead of his BBC2 programme The Great War – An Elegy: A Culture Show Special (broadcast Saturday 8 November 2014). Armitage has written seven… Continue reading
“Ilkley,” wrote JB Priestley in the festival’s first programme in 1973, “is the right size for a festival town; large enough to provide various amenities, and small enough to stroll round and run… Continue reading
The title of my blog might seem a bit abstract – but it’s taken from TS Eliot’s brilliant poem The Waste Land: “At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward… Continue reading
