Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...
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Kate Tempest wins Ted Hughes prize

Mar

27

2013

Well done Kate Tempest for winning the Ted Hughes award for innovation in poetry last night. The prize was awarded to her by Carol Ann Duffy in a ceremony at the Saville Club.The award was in recognition of her work Brand New Ancients, which relocates old gods to modern London. Brand New Ancients was co-commissioned ...
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Albany (Deptford) · literature · poetry · theatre · Transpontine

Charles P. O’Conor: An Irish Poet in Deptford

Mar

17

2013

A little St Patrick's Day post:Charles P. O'Conor's collection of poems, Songs of a Life, was printed at the Kentish Mercury office in Blackheath Road in 1875 and reviewed by Matthew Arnold in the Pall Mall Gazette in June 1875.In Arnold's essay, A Deptford Poet, O'Conor is described as 'an Irish workingman settled at Deptford' ...
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19th century · Deptford · Irish · Lewisham · literature · poetry · Transpontine