● THE BRAMMERTON CASTLE CENTRE for the Creative Arts advertises extensively. The London Review of Books, the Literary Review and Saga magazine all play host to its half-page solicitations addressed to “creatively-minded people” who would like to “explore their potential,” with a view to “releasing their inner spirit in an atmosphere calculated to bring out the buried you”. Not much survives of the castle, but enough remains to supply a picturesque backdrop for photographs of the Brammerton team.
There are half-a-dozen of these creative behemoths. But somehow the attractions of “leading poet” Archie Sillitoe (who did indeed once publish a poem in the Listener back in 1989), “highly regarded ceramicist” Jerry Cascob (a bearded potter) and a dancing instructor whose last engagement was in panto sometime in the early 1990s…
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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2023