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A Polished Performance

A Polished Performance Citizens of the polished capital Sigh for the towns up country, And their innocent simplicity. People in…

8 years ago

Power

Power by Audre Lorde The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.…

8 years ago

Those School Brochures: How to stand out from the crowd

If you're in the market for an independent school - or a college for that matter - you will have…

8 years ago

Traveler, there is no road

Traveler, there is no road Caminante, no hay camino Traveler, your footprints are the only road, nothing else. Traveler, there…

8 years ago

Song of the Dark Ages

Song of the Dark Ages We digged our trenches on the down    Beside old barrows, and the wet White…

8 years ago

On the Steps of the Jefferson Memorial

The simplest poems can be amongst the most profound. On the Steps of the Jefferson Memorial We invent our gods…

8 years ago

Among the Narcissi

Spring comes earlier in the UK than it does here and the growing season is longer and cooler. Plath's poem…

8 years ago

A Performance of Henry V at Stratford-upon-Avon

When Lawrence Olivier produced Henry V toward the end of World War II it was partly funded by the government…

8 years ago

Bent to the Earth

Here is a scene of violence and inhumanity that feels torn from the front page of the newspaper or a…

8 years ago

In Parenthesis: Part 1

This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt and was part of. The period covered begins in…

8 years ago