Poetry is critical to a complete understanding of the First World War because in the years leading up to and…
August 1914 What in our lives is burnt In the fire of this? The heart’s dear granary? The much we…
Poltroon - the very word is like a ... what? a.) A North American mammal of the raccoon family known…
Blackbirds are notorious for being able to mimic the sounds they hear as they hop about the celestial chimney pots…
Song of the Dark Ages We digged our trenches on the down Beside old barrows, and the wet White…
This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt and was part of. The period covered begins in…
In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men,…
Thaw by Edward Thomas Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw…
How will artists and writers portray this Trumpian time of disillusion, delusion and deception in which we now live? All…
About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place…
It's politically incorrect to say Happy Holidays these days. We must all say Merry Christmas. No word on the acceptability…
After forty five years it's time to re-wire! And the start of my re-wirement coincides with the centenary of the…
On Christmas Day 1915 David Lloyd George the former radical liberal,then Minister of Munitions and soon to be Prime Minister…