When I first became a head of school I had this daft idea that I would make personalized cut-and-paste greetings…
Two quite different wartime farewells at Charing Cross Station: The first is from Vera Brittain on the eve of 1915:…
Two Sundays, two documentaries and two very satisfactory movie experiences. The first was Maiden at The Moviehouse in Millerton, NY.…
In 1975 the poet Allen Ginsberg was in hospital. At a later poetry reading he explained the causes in an…
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban nights…
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor…
I began this post in 2017. The original focus was Louis MacNeice's's poem "Brother Fire". MacNeice was a fire-watcher during…
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today is moving to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris but you…
I mostly associate the artist Saul Steinberg with the work he did for The New Yorker and the last time…
What use is poetry? .... We have poetry So we do not die of history. - Meena Alexander I like poems…