tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post7233768360561158484..comments2023-11-03T11:00:07.566+00:00Comments on Displacement: Aldeburgh Poetry Festival I: the 21st century and other thingsFiona Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10052038869211775919noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-18404684510704544282011-11-14T15:45:15.489+00:002011-11-14T15:45:15.489+00:00Hi Fiona I've just discovered your blog which ...Hi Fiona I've just discovered your blog which makes wonderful reading. Do please keep going, something to look forward to as winter steps in.Mel Pryornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-33407191939260288942011-11-12T10:46:42.535+00:002011-11-12T10:46:42.535+00:00Thank you Ali. And yes, if one has to lose a debi...Thank you Ali. And yes, if one has to lose a debit card there could hardly be a better place, or a nicer way to find it...Fiona Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052038869211775919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-61195326302294850742011-11-12T10:41:34.074+00:002011-11-12T10:41:34.074+00:00Great blog, Fiona. Back to work straight after Ald...Great blog, Fiona. Back to work straight after Aldeburgh, I'd not had time to think about the festival; your piece gives me a way back in again. And talking about the wonderful Aldeburghians, a postcard of a very sunny Thorpeness arrived here in Ealing on Tuesday from the bookshop to tell me I'd left my debit card in the Jubilee Hall . . .<br />AliAli Thurmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-7796999061270420202011-11-12T10:40:30.926+00:002011-11-12T10:40:30.926+00:00Thank you Naomi for that characteristically genero...Thank you Naomi for that characteristically generous comment. I'm all too familiar with the projects-v-running costs problem. How does one get funders to understand that projects can't be delivered without a core of stability? You must let all of us Aldeburgh enthusiasts know if we can help you demonstrate how valuable the festival is. <br />Hope you're having this whole weekend off!Fiona Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052038869211775919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-4942694598647825412011-11-11T08:43:55.732+00:002011-11-11T08:43:55.732+00:00Although I feel like I'm adding to the Aldebur...Although I feel like I'm adding to the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 'love-fest' by commenting - I just have to thank you, Fiona, so much, for your acuity and attentiveness which shines through in this wonderfully full-yet-condensed account of your 2011 Festival weekend. I think blogging is clearly an emerging artform - one that perhaps ACE's literature department ought to invest in, starting with Displacement and Sonofabook! We do have exciting - and pretty radical - plans for 2012, but they will/can only happen with proper, public funding. We've a GftA application to submit by January and ACE are making encouraging noises. The trouble is that GftA funds 'projects' and not core costs. And we can't do the Festival without the stability of a small but professional team/office/overheads etc. By not being regularly funded, this is what we have lost. And unsurprisingly it's the area least-favoured by charitable trusts and foundations. But the signs are still good, our ambition and passion if anything stronger, and so we'll forge ahead with every intention of deliving the UK's (Europe's?) finest international poetry gathering! Hope that doesn't prove to be easier said than done...Naomi Jaffanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-69216500692791371482011-11-09T10:06:58.454+00:002011-11-09T10:06:58.454+00:00... and thank you Anthony! You'd better go ne...... and thank you Anthony! You'd better go next year...Fiona Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052038869211775919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-70203169033646734932011-11-09T08:33:51.509+00:002011-11-09T08:33:51.509+00:00Thank you both. Charles, I'm sure you are rig...Thank you both. Charles, I'm sure you are right about enabling. You should take over the Arts Council. Jocelyn, me too, though it's a long wait...Fiona Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052038869211775919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-56915315321966940752011-11-09T08:28:56.691+00:002011-11-09T08:28:56.691+00:00Hi Fiona , thanks so much for this, I feel like I ...Hi Fiona , thanks so much for this, I feel like I was there. Wonderful tips for new reading. All best as ever, AnthonyAnthony Wilsonhttp://www.anthonywilsonpoetry.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-75255003259627469192011-11-09T00:29:36.604+00:002011-11-09T00:29:36.604+00:00Fiona - what a lovely post, finishing with Naomi&#...Fiona - what a lovely post, finishing with Naomi's uplifting comments about next year's festival. I'm already looking forward to it.jocelyn pagenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648230750208763565.post-5916906665924602432011-11-08T23:05:14.882+00:002011-11-08T23:05:14.882+00:00Well, maybe my photos (responding to your comment ...Well, maybe my photos (responding to your comment on my post on this circular blogathon), but those are quik-cliks and your text is better. What is less bloggable than Aldeburgh itself is the aftermath: from this sudden concentration of words and poets, what people take forward: what they pick up to read, who they look to, how they write. Over weeks, months, longer. Effects which cannot be measured by any Arts Council tick-boxes. Enabling - I have a thing about this - is the only decent purpose for any arts organisation, publisher or festival or whatever - and Aldeburgh, despite or because of its being a pretty inaccessible place in the middle of nowhere, does this.charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16580118367334638930noreply@blogger.com