Simon Zonenblick - Writing and more

 I have been writing prolifically of late, both for imminent publication, and much more aimlessly. It is often hard to know what to do with the vast amount of writing I've produced, so from time to time I have decided to share a little more of it here. Much of my recent scribbling has been done in the course of railway journeys, and I reproduce the following short poetry sequence as a tiny taste of the times. Dreamed up on returning from a trip to the coast, it is an example of the sort of material I have been writing almost therapeutically, in between more laboured efforts at structured work.   TRAIN TRIP TRIPTYCH   The Estuary, Humber’s tongue, licks land, expands into a sea-like bulge of bluey grey     The Humber at night is a vast flat mat of blue-black glass, sleek sheet of slate, ice-slice, brightened by stripes of lemon light as headlights drip electric onto water   On the late train, riding by the towns and fiel...

2026 has been an immensely busy year thus far, with a tremendous amount of time taken up travelling to and from places I have been writing about for ongoing and future projects.  South and East Yorkshire, Cumbria, and central England, not to mention my native stamping grounds in West Yorkshire, have  featured frequently, and in just a few hours' time I will be bouncing off to Brum for the umpteenth time.  Much news will be forthcoming in regard to all. I was delighted to be published for the second time in The Dalesman magazine in February, with an article profiling William Dutton, the innovative founder, artistic director and conductor of Cuore, Yorkshire's newest chamber orchestra, who I interviewed amid the illustrious confines of Harrogate's Royal Hall, the orchestra's main performing home.  Having attended Cuore's inaugural concert last May, it was a privilege to be able to help spread the word, and I am thrilled to say that the article has already secured fur...