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LIGHT ON LIGHT

There is a light within us all — I try to write about it.

  • LIGHT ON LIGHT FEATURES
    • Travel Articles
    • Articles on History
    • Movies That Resonate
  • My Books
    • SEA SORES – A BRIGHTONIAN BOOK
      • Most Miracles Go Unpunished – Spoken Word Poem.
      • Granada Spoken Word.
      • Poem – Dumbfounded.
      • “Sea Sores” The Book Is Launched
      • Time And Time Again – Spoken Word Film By NJW
      • It Was Meant To Be Immense – Video Poem
      • Enter The Untold – Video of Flight into Mexico And a ‘Poem’ Written Enroute.
      • The Gas Giants – Video spoken word Poem. By n j w
      • A Hundred Parts Scattered – P14 of ‘Sea Sores – A Brightonian Book.’
      • Blond Light – Short Film Spoken Word.
      • Sea Sores – The Audio Book Available On Audible.
      • It Spoke Of Her – Spoken Word Film –
      • Lucent – Spoken Word Film – Indianapolis
      • The Hours Of The Day – New Spoken Word Video By N J Wood
      • Nectarines And Cigarettes – N J Wood – Brighton. From Sea Sores the audio book available on Audible.
      • Enter The Untold – Video of Flight into Mexico And a ‘Poem’ Written Enroute.
      • Default By Love – New Poem. Recorded And Filmed in Granada – Sept/Oct
      • A Hundred Parts Scattered – P14 of ‘Sea Sores – A Brightonian Book.’
      • Brighton’s West Pier – Spoken Word – By Seasores – N J W
      • Spoken Word – Dragonflies
      • What Ever Flowers In A Desert Only Ever Flowers Briefly – Video Piece
    • ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF A SMILE
      • New Book Out For Christmas.
      • It Was Meant To Be Immense – Video Poem
      • Nectarines And Cigarettes – N J Wood – Brighton. From Sea Sores the audio book available on Audible.
      • Showcasing – Essential Elements Of A Smile.
  • JUST A THOUGHT MEMES
    • Just a thought 1
    • Just a thought 2
    • Just a thought 3
    • Just a thought 5
    • Just a thought 4
    • Just a thought 6
    • Just a thought 7
    • Just a thought 8
  • GREAT WRITERS SERIES
    • The Great Writers Series: “The Bright Field” by R S Thomas.
    • Great Writers Series – Philip Larkin – rare 1960’s Programme with Sir John Betjeman
    • Great Writers Series – The Bukowski Interviews.
    • Great Writers Series – Philip Larkin (Part Two)
    • Great Writers Series – Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Interview 1961
    • GREAT WRITERS SERIES
  • Articles

Tag: music

The Unlikely Story Of My Book Becoming A Bestseller!

Sea Sores began with writing about daily life in my home town on the south coast of England, around 2015 … More

Beauty, Bestseller, Brighton, Hove, How to write, How to write a beat seller, How to write poetry, Insta poet, instagram, love, music, Nick Wood, POET, Poetry, seasores, writer

Love Endures – A Reading And A Reflection

The quote is from a longer piece about my grandparents who both passed away some ten years ago. They appear … More

Brighton, family, grief, Loss, love, music, Poem, POET

Inside Always Song

Is a spoken word adaption from the Book. Page 58 of ‘Sea sores – a Brightonian Book.’ Available on Amazon … More

affirmation, Brighton, Dance, How to write poetry, Laughter, lawofattraction, Love poem, music, Visualization

It Was Meant To Be Immense – Video Poem

It was meant to be immense – Spoken Word adaptation from the book. Page 112 of the ‘Sea sores – … More

Biden, Brighton, Bukowski, fitness, Hove, Indiana, love, music, Palmer's Square, publishers, Robinson Jeffers

Rumpjack – A Fireside Ghost Story

Chapter one – The Triangle. A short (pre final edit) story about the first encounter with the spirit called RumpJack. … More

Audible, Audio book, Brighton, Ghost stories, Hove, love, music, myth, POET, Snow, spoken word

New Book Out For Christmas.

Essential elements of a smile is an unrelentingly optimist publication. The idea behind it was to round off the year … More

Beauty, craft, gift, graphicdesign, Light, love, Mexico, music, now, optimism, POET, Positive, quotes, summer

A Hundred Parts Scattered – P14 of ‘Sea Sores – A Brightonian Book.’

✓#1 New release early July 2020 in the British and Irish contemporary literature category on Amazon.com (U.S) Children are haunted … More

Brighton, love, music, njwood, Poems, Poetry, Sea sores, Writing

Blond Light – Short Film Spoken Word.

Filmed just after lockdown, on the river bank where I’d gone to take my break through quarantine in Agde. Short … More

Bukowski, Cinema, Film, love, Modem literature, music, Poem, POET, Sea sores, spoken word, University, Writing

How Bill Gates Pandemic TED Talk Had Ancient Echoes.

A Story From Ancient Greece For Today’s World. In 2015 Bill Gates took to the stage for a TED talk, … More

Ancient Greece, Athens, Battle of Salamis, Bill gates, Classical History, fitness, gym, history, Leadership, love, Microsoft, Motorvation, music, Persia, relationships

Brain itch.

Bulletpoem – Can the same action be judged differently by the same audience, depending on the gender of the one … More

American, art, Article, author, Beauty, beginnings, Blog, Book, British poet, Bukowski, culture, depression, friendship, girl, Gratatude, gym, history, landscape, Motorvation, music, new poetry, njwood, Philip Larkin, Poem, POET, Poetry, politics, polotics, publication, relationship, seasores, spoken word, travelling

Virtual Vesuvius – Video Poem – By n j w

-Transcript- Vesuvius laid its cloak upon Pompeii and eighteen hundred years later, when men of the enlightenment cleared the mountains … More

British poet, history, love, music, myth, njw, Poem, seasores, Vesuvius, videopoet, Writing

Great Writers Series – Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Interview 1961

Speaks for itself.

love, music, POET, Poetry, Syliva Plath, Ted Hughes

The Gas Giants – Video spoken word Poem. By n j w

the gas giants –
by n j w

the gas giants speak loud in the night
while quiet more solid bodies
go unheard in the heavens

those rocky worlds pace alone
their elsewhere eyes as far
as can be from telescope

love, music, new poetry, POET, Poetry, space

Great Writers Series – Philip Larkin – rare 1960’s Programme with Sir John Betjeman

An excellent programme where the great poets discuss their work and we follow Philip Larkin as he recites a few of his works. Truly a gem for anyone that appreciates Larkin’s work in particular.

English, love, music, Philip Larkin, POET, Poetry

Embers in ash

A new beauty emerges in the husks of wild flowers at the end of summer.

art, Brighton, gym, Life, models, music, painting, photography, POET, Poetry, relationship, sea, women, writer

Eight minutes.

It takes eight minutes
for light after leaving the sun,
to reach earth.
four hundred and eighty
seconds, give or take a few.

Light, music, photography, Poem, POET, selfie, sunshine, women, writer

Meme 6

I stand beside a wilderness, and tonight she’s as wild as she gets.
She’s all mine – all her distance, all her depths.

Beauty, Brighton, dancing, love, Meme, music, photography, POET, Poetry, sea, Sunset, women

Meme 3

Meme 3 – A tad grandiose but you get the idea.

artist, Brighton, Hove, love, memes, music, POET, Poetry, relationships, writer

Meme 2

art, Article, Beauty, beginnings, Blog, England, family, fashion, history, learning, life lessons, London, me, memes, men, money, music, Peace, POET, Poetry, politics, Publisher, publishing, relationships, seasores, study, Sunset, thoughts, trends, truth, women, Writing

Meme 1.

Memes Exstract from a long poem called Whale mantle, within the collection of Seasores.

art, Article, Beauty, beginnings, Blog, England, family, fashion, friendship, history, learning, life lessons, London, me, music, Peace, POET, Poetry, politics, publishing, relationships, study, Sunset, trends, truth, women, Writing
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