PlaySpace Publications

26/04/2025

from Quest for the Enlightened Feminine to Gerry Loose Memorial Reading, new moon writing with Linda France and Painting the Rainbow retreat -

This month I’ve been away on a silent retreat for 10 days based on the Greater Mandala of Uselessness. On returning, as usual, I had a flood of emails – mostly now deleted because they are out of date, but a few were inspirational and still relevant:

18/03/2025

PSP News March 25 corrections for New Moon Writing and Spring Awakening. . . . and Sobbing Without Words -

08/03/2025

Flowers for Angela * Autumn Voices * Gerry Loose Memorial Event * StAnza * Spring Equinox * New Moon Writing * Fiona Sampson & Lesley Morrison -

I want bundles of bog cotton, wild orchids, bog myrtle, blaeberry, even heather, wrapped in peat bog (tied with bracken).

13/02/2025

and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? B is for Breath * Vernal Equinox * Jacqueline Smith – sad news * i.m. Gerry Loosey * Play - https://mailchi.mp/90a0c3b27339/and-did-you-get-what-you-wanted-from-this-life-even-so-b-is-for-breath-vernal-equinox-jacqueline-smith-sad-news-im-gerry-loosey-play-10910584

13/02/2025

and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? B is for Breath * Vernal Equinox * Jacqueline Smith – sad news * i.m. Gerry Loosey * Play - https://mailchi.mp/3fa8064a8280/and-did-you-get-what-you-wanted-from-this-life-even-so-b-is-for-breath-vernal-equinox-jacqueline-smith-sad-news-im-gerry-loosey-play

23/01/2025

PlaySpace New January 2025 -

PSP has published books, pamphlets, and cards for 15 years and there are 15 authors on the list – sadly 9 of them now dead. Their words, however, are still alive and available. In the spirit of playfulness and aliveness, each month this year I will publish a quote – a voice from beyond. In one o...

23/01/2025

PlaySpace News January 2025 -

PSP has published books, pamphlets, and cards for 15 years and there are 15 authors on the list – sadly 9 of them now dead. Their words, however, are still alive and available. In the spirit …

30/09/2024

I Am Because We Are -

Since the PSP September Robin died with his wife Sallie holding him close at 2:30am on the 5th September. As I wrote last month: I’ve promised Robin that I would finish the book, and extracts are now published monthly on the PlaySpace Publications Substack. The eulogy I wrote and read read at his ...

11/09/2024

PlaySpace Extra September 2024 -

Dear friends and colleagues in the writing fraternity, Robin Lloyd-Jones 1934 – 2024 – died peacefully in his bed with his wife Sallie holding him on the early morning of 5th September. The celebration of Robin’s life is due to take place in Helensburgh on 19/09/2024 (10:30 am to 12:30 pm). to...

28/08/2024

Robin Lloyd-Jones - The Poet's Way - New Moon Writing Hour - Gannets are a give-away -

During the journey from 2014 to publish Robin’s book Autumn Voices in 2018, Robin and I became close friends and have worked together on another book called “I Am Because We Are” and “I am because we are” are probably my farewell words to Robin because he is terminally ill and may die very...

04/08/2024

I AM BECAUSE WE ARE: https://sukhema.substack.com/about. New Moon Writing Hour. Words Hold Us Together. The Honeyed Hive. The Poet's Way -

A rather weird and unreliable biography of Larry Butler seen through the eyes of others. Click to read I Am Because We Are, a Substack publication. Launched 7 months ago.

16/05/2024

PlaySpace New May 24 -Gerry Loose died on the 29th April - probably a heart attack while walking his dog "Livey" in the woods on the Isle of Bute. The funeral will be at Greenock Crematorium at 2pm on Friday 17th May. It is close to Greenock West train station. There will be a mini-wake/funeral tea afterwards in a place just across the road. No flowers, but donations without any pressure to www.treesforlife.org.uk or www.map.org.uk . There will be a collection for MAP on the day. https://mailchi.mp/de2279f19781/playspace-new-may-20-24