Poetry

The Land Girl

The land army fights in the fields. It is in the fields of Britain that the most critical battle of…

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August 1914

August 1914 What in our lives is burnt In the fire of this? The heart’s dear granary? The much we…

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MCMXIV

MCMXIV Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The…

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The Good Life

Did you have times like these in your life? Times that you look back on with a sense of loss…

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The Golf Links

The Manumit School was an experimental Christian socialist boarding school in Pawling, NY. and later Bristol, Pennsylvania. Manumit means freedom and…

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Ballad of the Three Spectres

In Ivor Gurney's nightmarish vision, the dead among the living bear dire warnings and mockery. Ballad of the Three Spectres…

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Landfall in Unknown Seas

Some poems capture my attention because they have the twin virtues of being grounded in historical reality and yet reach…

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Tweet Tweet

Tweet Tweet There’s a blackbird in my mango tree and I think of Marley and singing songs of freedom I…

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Mud Soup

Some culinary disasters can be repurposed. Here is Glen Baxter on polenta: And then there are times when you just…

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Russian – American Romance

Russian - American Romance In my land and yours they do hit the hay and sleep the whole night in…

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