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This part of the website is devoted to sharing with you some of my interests other than books – although there are, of course, some cross-connections.
All the material is © Copyright Rodney A M Dale, unless I acknowledge another source. Anyone wishing to reproduce any of the material should seek permission via Copyright@fernhouse.com |
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Some insights into the concentration of the collective conscience.
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An annotated recipe telling it like it really is.
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Experiences in hospital.
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An examination of standard conversational phrases.
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Lines that were largely in my head when I awoke on 26 May 1974. I immediately wrote them down and massaged them into shape.
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Local artist Chris Wood held an exhibition in ADeC’s Babylon Gallery in Ely in March 2002. We arranged a couple of poetry workshops with local performance poet Mick Gowar in association with the exhibition to see what inspiration we could draw from it. Chris Wood’s inspiration is a Hiawatha-style poem I based largely on words from Chris’s brochure.
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I was inspired to write this by Chris Wood’s exhibition, in that light occupies a very small window in the electromagnetic spectrum that extends from very long-wave radio at one end to extremely short-wave gamma radiation at the other. It was gratifying to find that some members of the audience suddenly discovered – at last – the significance of the spectrum; everything fell into place for them.
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Lines written on seeing certain advertisements in colour supplements time after time after time, inspiring thoughts of a universe wherein Raymond Baxter and Thora Hird spend all their time racing each other up and down on stairlifts.
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Lines inspired by a somewhat one-sided conversation I heard on a train between two ladies of the sort I’m sure you’re familiar with.
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A journey from madness to sanity My account of the escape from the snarling Cambridge traffic to the quiet of home.
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On seeing Stonehenge for the first time I wrote this account of events of 1951 in 2002. I used Betjemanesque devices to reflect carefree adolescence.
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A talk delivered to the Chesterton Local History Society on 15 November 1999; a personal account of life in the area during the Second World War and afterwards.
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A talk delivered to the Cambridge Local History Society on 4 November 2000, concerning collecting, the philosophy of collecting, and some specific collections.
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A talk delivered to the Histon & Impington Society on 29 February 2000, concerning the author’s years in Histon (a village some four miles North of Cambridge), and especially his experiences at The Old House, 2 Station Road.
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Mrs Fish On Tour All about Rodney Dale's one-man show
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