Part 1 in a new series for Bell House in Your Home featuring Q&A interviews with young up and coming musicians from the local area, featuring violin and cello duo 82 Degrees.
Read moreBell House Volunteer Profile for May 2020 - Sonia
In the first of our volunteer profiles for the monthly Volunteer Bulletin, we chat to Sonia about her involvement with Bell House and her life in Dulwich.
Read moreDyslexic Learners at Home, Part 8: Study skills for Teenagers
For the eighth part in our series, we’re discussing some tips and resources to help teenagers study at home.
Read moreDyslexic Learners at Home, Part 7: For all those not going back to school
The next part of our series responds to the government’s plans for a phased reopening of schools from June with advice and recommendations for all those not going back to school from Suzanne Jessel.
Read morePoem Of The Week, Week 6: April '63 - a translation by Martyn Crucefix
The last poem we’d like to share with you this week is April ‘63, which is Marytn Crucefix’s translation of a German poem by Peter Huchel.
April ‘63
Looking up from the chopping-block
under a light rain,
with axe in hand,
I see up there in the wide boughs
five young jays.
In silence, they chase, they indicate
from branch to branch,
pointing a way for the sun
through the hazy undergrowth.
And a fiery tongue flashes among the trees.
I make my bed
in the icy hollow of my years.
I split logs,
the tough splintery wood of isolation.
And I settle myself
among spiders’ webs,
deepening further the desolation of the shed,
among the odours of pine
piled rough-cuts with axe in hand.
Looking up from the chopping-block
in warm April rain,
I see leafless
horse-chestnut boughs,
their sticky sheaths
of buds shine.
Crucefix’s most recent publications include, ‘Cargo of Limbs’ (Hercules Editions). His most recent blog posts can be found here.