Martin Wroe
martinwroe.bsky.social
Martin Wroe
@martinwroe.bsky.social
Improvising. Latest poetry collection, 'This Heart. Poems From The Universe Inside.' https://www.ionabooks.com/product/this-heart/

London, Wales Some more words. martinwroe.medium.com
‘Some bright morning when this life is over
I'll fly away
To that home on God's celestial shore
I'll fly away…’
The mesmerizing power of two guitars and two voices that is Gillian Welsh and David Rawlings lighting up the London Palladium.
October 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
‘I want to see the bright lights tonight…’ And last night I saw one of music’s brightest lights, the entirely great Richard Thompson performing at The Cutty Sark in London's Greenwich. (The Cutty Sark is on the top left)
May 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Reading some poems among the paintings in the sun by the sea in Margate on Sunday afternoon.
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April 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Neon Blue Tales IV, featuring new work by the luminous Meg Wroe and friends, opens at The Pie Factory in Margate today and runs till Tuesday at 5.
Private View Thursday at 6. Poetry Reading (including this poet) Sunday at 4.
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April 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Lent, Easter, Spring: reading with some fine poets connected with the Iona Community and Wild Goose Publishing this Wednesday. Register to join on zoom here.
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March 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
'The coins jangle in purse or pocket
The notes turn up in old books...'
March 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Good turn out last night to see new paintings by Meg Wroe and others in ‘One Off’ at Candid Arts, just behind London’s Angel tube. Show runs till Sunday.
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March 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Transcendent night with Iris Dement at Union Chapel in London.
‘...now we're workin' on a world
I may never see
I'm joining forces with the warriors of love
Who came before and will follow you and me
I get up in the morning
Knowing I'm privileged just to be
Workin' on a world
I may never see…'
March 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Two bards in a cathedral. @deansouthwark.bsky.social
in conversation with the dean of poems Padraig O'Tuama
to launch 'Kitchen Hymns' and '44 Poems On Being With Each Other'
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February 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
‘Play is how children learn. Art is where adults play…’
Sparkling conversation between Bette A. & Brian Eno at the British Library to launch their new book What Art Does.
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January 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
‘… And when a downpour comes
All I wish is for you and me to have a covering.’
From Umbrella by Theresa Lola, among those reading or singing this Friday night at Lyrical in N London.
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January 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM

Unplugged songs and wired-up poems including Iain Archer, Theresa Lola, Jinadu, Rhian Roberts and Gret Heffernan.
Friday Jan 17. London N7. Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/lyrical-ti...
January 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Near London Friday Jan 17 ? Latest Lyrical night of songwriters & poets features Iain Archer, Theresa Lola, Rhian Roberts and Jinadu. Tickets. eventbrite.co.uk/e/lyrical-ti...
January 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A world 'controlled by libertarians, dictators & tech bros. No dissent, no freedom. Everyone monitored...' Preview of forthcoming genre-bending sci-fi-drama-doc '2073' and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social speaking with director Asif Kapadia.
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December 11, 2024 at 11:55 AM
'We are all of us a calendar...' #advent #wreath #candle
December 1, 2024 at 8:56 AM

Candlelit & clandestine. Society of the GoldenSlippers meeting at Old St Pancras Church with stellar sets from @dmarthurmusic.bsky.social Laura Elizabeth Hughes &
@lukesitalsingh.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Raced through incendiary new thriller Black Tag by @simonmayo.bsky.social, published by @penguinpress.bsky.social in January. Page turning paean to investigative journalism and compelling streamer drama in the making.
November 18, 2024 at 10:10 AM
'I heard a voice say fear not
That weeping will not last...'
From the anthology, 'Prayers & Poems for Advent & Christmas', published this week by Wild Goose Books.
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November 14, 2024 at 8:10 AM
'The unseen world we look for
In the everyday election.'
November 7, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Stumbled in to a bunch of beautiful hidden quiet spaces earlier, walking through a London I usually walk on by. From Tower Hill to Smithfield Market. 'Walking is for the body, pilgrimage is for the soul' as our guide from the
@PilgrimTrust put it. Thanks to www.kairos.london
August 29, 2024 at 1:44 PM