Before Disaster

8 years ago

"Fool and scoundrel guide the State." That's true enough. In the early 1930's when this was written speeding traffic on…

Stalin’s Heirs

8 years ago

Stalin’s Heirs by Yevgeny Yevtushenko Mute was the marble. Mutely glimmered the glass. Mute stood the sentries, bronzed by the…

Timothy Winters

8 years ago

If you went to school in the UK anytime in the last sixty years then you will probably be familiar…

Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)

8 years ago

Muriel Rukeyser wrote this in 1968. Read it and tell me it doesn't feel like she is writing for this…

Palindrome

8 years ago

What an intriguing idea: Reversing time to see your younger self moving forward in time as you move backward. What…

Thaw

8 years ago

Thaw by Edward Thomas Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw…

Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School

8 years ago

Not a very effective way to get children to love school and enjoy math. But looks like it was an…

A Local Train of Thought

8 years ago

There's a comfort in routines and familiar sounds. Some towns have a noon whistle. If you've lived near a school…

Wood on the Downs

8 years ago

Wood On The Downs After Paul Nash by Martin Malone   We have been here before. Uffington, Hackpen, Grim’s Ditch,…

Art and Our Times

8 years ago

How will artists and writers portray this Trumpian time of disillusion, delusion and deception in which we now live? All…