Nic Treadwells Storyville

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Part 1 - Chapter 1

A reading of Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

Improvised story about a par and his son.

What You Missed That Day You Were Absent From Fourth Grade by Brad Aaron Modlin

A reading of Clive James deeply moving poem Anchorage International from his 2017 Picador collection Injury Time.

Two poems that use nature to explore human emotion.

From the introduction of Discovering Scarfolk by Richard Littler published by Ebury Press 2014

A reading of The Art Of Deception by Rachel Rooney

Whisper of a Thin Ghost from Tell Me The Truth About Life - A National Poetry Day Anthology 2019 published by Michael O’Mara Books Limited

Scenes Of The Mind from The Defeat If Youth and Other Poems (1918) by Aldous Huxley.

This chapter in Grahame’s classic story comes out of no where and is beautiful for its description of the animals encounter with the nature god Pan, who helps them find the most Otter child Portly. When I read it aloud tonight it leaped out of the page.

A poem written for friends Rachel and David on the occasion of their wedding.

Two poems by Aldous Huxley. Sentimental Summer from The Burning Wheel (1916) and Summer Stillness from The Defeat Of Youth And Other Poems (1918)

Two new poems. Fifty & Success.

Two poems. Perils Of The Small Hours from The Burning Wheel (1916), Waking from The Defeat Of Youth And Other Poems (1918)

Invariably when I sit at the piano something comes up...tonight I streamed some lyrics and this is it so far. TBC.

The Night Watch & Dream from Noctuary by Niall Campbell (Bloodaxe Books)

Sickening For Something by Nic Treadwell. (C) 2019

As recited by Frank Sidebottom on 01/10/2008 at Manchester TV21 Film night.