Correction re typo in earlier post re course starting next Sunday, which is seven weeks, not nine! = sun 20 oct—sat 14 dec, £280: 'taking a walk: the poetry of footfall': 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe 🚶 see: tinyurl.com/takingawalk-...#coffeehousepoetry art: guy bourdin

Thames surface full of clouds (to appropriate Wallace Stevens): looking upriver, last night, with the last of the light sinking over Chiswick Mall

sun 20 oct—sat 14 dec, £280: 'taking a walk: the poetry of footfall': 7-wk creative-writing workshop with anne-marie fyfe🚶 The joys of striding out & a chance to step outside yourself, literally & virtually, & let wandering lead you where it will... see: tinyurl.com/taking-a-wal... art: mark hess

'Why blue? People ask me this question often. I never know how to respond. We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say.' (Maggie Nelson, 'Bluets') sun 20 oct—sat 14 dec, £280: 7-wk creative-writing course see: tinyurl.com/Beyond-the-Blue-another-chance art: tran nguyen

Another run of 'Beyond the Blue' starts Sun 20 Oct. Now deep into week five of current course & great to hear how absorbed in 'blue' – & productive – everyone is. For those who were hoping for a repeat, this one runs through to early December. 💙 see: tinyurl.com/Beyond-the-B... art: rafal oblinski

Positively Mediterranean on Chiswick Mall last night: cornucopia in a Fiat 500 Giardinetta's bonnet, at Mari Deli where they still dine al fresco on balmy October evenings by the Thames...

fri 25 oct—sat 14 dec, £280: between the lines, a 7-wk close reading & critical masterclass with Cahal Dallat Explore an exciting new group of chosen poets — starting, this time, with enigmatic Canadian poet, Anne Carson... full details: tinyurl.com/betweentheli... (art: olaoluwa smith)

Good to hear from those on the current Sep/Oct 'Between the Lines', re how much they're enjoying the masterclass which kicked off with Anne Carson. And for those who didn't get a place this time Cahal's running the same course again through Nov/Dec see tinyurl.com/betweentheli... art: helga stentzel

So sad to hear Goran Simič died on Sunday. Friend, & much-admired poet when he came from Toronto to read for #coffeehousepoetry & Armagh's Hewitt Summer School in 2004 & 2005 (we're here with Visnja at the Giant's Causeway). He'd been back in Sarajevo since 2013 having escaped 'the siege' in 1995.

'I'm so glad that I live in a world where there are Octobers'🍁 a day when I find myself agreeing with Lucy Maud Montgomery whose 'Green Gables' homestead I visited in Cavendish Woods, Prince Edward Island, on the writing (& readings & workshops) tour that became my 2020 #NoFarShore memoir