For When it Snows Part One

6 years ago

No snow where I am at the moment but here's a poem to enjoy now and also tuck away to…

Posing Modernity

6 years ago

Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today is moving to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris but you…

Saul Steinberg and Philip Guston Together

6 years ago

I mostly associate the artist Saul Steinberg with the work he did for The New Yorker and the last time…

Bumbarrel, Mumruffin and Poke Pudding

6 years ago

It was Clive Bennett who got me traveling down this particular track. He's a real birder and maintains a wonderful…

Lament in December

6 years ago

Lament In December December’s come and all is dead; Weep, woods, for summer far has sped And leaves rot in…

Communist, Nationalist, Fascist, Poet and Glasgow 1960

6 years ago

"I have too many books but I only have my shelf to blame." The pun came via Twitter. As does…

Back to the Future in Search of Doris Bass

6 years ago

I'm early but the staffroom is already blue with smoke and full of strangers who know each other. A row…

Thank You, Fog

6 years ago

There's the fog of war and there's the poetry of fog. A recent heavy mist  in my patch of the…

An Invitation

6 years ago

What use is poetry? .... We have poetry  So we do not die of history. - Meena Alexander I like poems…