Yeats wrote the poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" (see Game of Swans) in 1916 /17 when he was staying…
Decomposition I have a picture I took in Bombay of a beggar asleep on the pavement: grey-haired, wearing shorts and…
A group of swans is a wedge when they're in flight, likely because of the shape a group of swans takes in…
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It's always fun when someone you know - a friend - has a book published. Here's Three Sheets to the…
I love this poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It's a commentary on the fact that - even in the darkest…
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George Orwell had an interesting chance encounter with a blasé conspiracy theorist at the Café Royal in 1940. (See left). The young…
Just over 20 years ago now a teacher walked into my office and said that he had just found a…