Simon Pocock – Blog

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  • Classical guitar 2

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    Sons de Carrilhões Song by João Pernambuco I’ve been playing classical guitar since 1976 but really have made zero progress since I took it up again after a long period of “abstinence” while bringing up a family. So I play for myself and, on summer evenings, for those neighbours of mine here in Brighton that…

  • Poems 2

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    This is another beautiful poem about me by my friend Bonnie Naradzay. The poems are about me, and so is this blog. *** Everything’s Always in Motion You didn’t leave much to sustain me, just the crackle of a note on my pillow and the fragrant hyacinths in their pots with a plea to water…

  • Southern Italy 1943: Connected writing 2

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    I have collected many eye-witness accounts from local civilians during my research into events that took place in 1943 in the Campania region of Italy. They form the backbone and inspiration of what I do. This piece was based on a chance encounter with a man from Sanza, in the Cilento area of Southern Italy.…

  • Classical guitar 1

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    J. S. Bach: Bourree in e-minor BWV 996 I played this better 40 years ago, before computers were even around!

  • Southern Italy 1943: Connected writing 1

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    Writing non-fiction was not really what I had set out to do, but one night … I was sitting in my office in Naples one very stormy evening in the late autumn of 2001, supposedly finishing off my duty rostrum but in reality idly leafing through a book about Operation Avalanche. It was not just…

  • Poems 1

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    I was grateful to re-read some beautiful poems by my friend Bonnie Naradzay who I shall address as “you”. I take heart from remembering that you once held me so gently in your thoughts, albeit not without touches of your usual bumptious humor. Recalling your gangly schoolgirl self is breath-catching. I wonder if I am…

  • Hello everyone! Ciao a tutti!

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    So this is my first attempt at keeping a blog, apart from the one I started in 2012 which never got anywhere. The title – “Simon Pocock – Blog” has been left vague and the idea is to leave as many doors open as possible for the different subjects I hope to cover: “Southern Italy…