Northern Soul’s Poetry Correspondent, Wendy Pratt, talks to singer/songwriter Kathryn Williams about Hypoxia, an album written to mark the 50th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Williams will be performing...
Read MoreI get about a bit as a poet, travelling across the country to tiny venues in the back rooms of pubs where an audience of three or four are there for the open mic night and have never heard of me, let alone read my poetry. They...
Read MoreThis weekend marked Northern Soul’s second birthday. To commemorate the occasion, Northern Soul’s Poetry Correspondent Wendy Pratt has written this poem. Northern Soul I’m the dull, soot-scarred smoke stacks, a...
Read MoreNorthern Soul’s Wendy Pratt writes candidly about her devastating experience with NHS failings, how she came through it, and why she still loves and admires the health service. Some of you will know, as I talk about it...
Read MoreI remember watching Open University videos in school. I remember that wonderful moment when you sensed the looming possibility of a total skive from actual school work, only to be clawing the walls with boredom half an hour...
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