It’s been a busy few weeks. Today started very well by my getting the Wordle in one – third time this year! If you don’t…
Poetry
Category: Poems
Hurray! Spring is on its way! Well, the days are lengthening at least….It’s been a busy start to the year although I don’t seem to…
One of the highlights of my first year on the York MA in 2020 was being introduced to The House of Fame by Chaucer. I…
Some years ago now I visited Orford Ness Nature Reserve, a strange and mysterious place on the coast of Suffolk. Strange in the same way…
How easily do poem titles come to you? How about book/pamphlet titles? I’ve always found titles quite hard to come up with. I’ve been through…
Did I mention I’d signed up for some swimming lessons? I saw a poster for a six-week long (school holidays) once a week group course,…
Tomorrow evening is the online launch of Lighthouse Journal #22 in which I have a poem called ‘Let’s pretend to go shopping together’. This poem…
Current reading … and a parrot Camilla’s Bookshop is open again in Eastbourne after an arson attack, and I can report that the parrot is…
Epigraphs, we’re told, are risky – they have a habit of upstaging the poem that follows. But the quote from William Blake is an apt…
I was recently asked to select some readings to go in between the movements of a choral piece. The piece is Bob Chilcott’s On Christmas…