Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries

Ernest Dowson

  • Ernest Dowson Event

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    There will be an unveiling of the restored grave of Ernest Dowson on Monday August 2nd at 2pm at his graveside in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemetery. There will be an introduction and a reading by Jad Adams, Author of the biography ‘Madder Music, Stronger wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent’ followed…

  • Ernest Dowson Contemporary Art Project

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    Six degrees of decadence: 31st May – 7th June 2008Throughout the week of Brockley Max, Jam Circus will play host to Six degrees of decadence a new digital-based art project based on the life and works of the Poet Ernest Dowson which playfully explores ideas of connection, truth, history and technology. Dowson was an English…

  • Ernest Dowson

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    FOBLC member Mike Guilfoyle is campaigning to get Lewisham council to recognise one of its most remarkable residents by naming a street after Ernest Dowson. Here Mike writes about the ‘decadent’ poet who lies buried in the Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries, with a bottle of absinthe by his grave to keep him company. One of…