If you've ever been young and full of dreams .... If you ever headed to the big city with your…
It seemed to them that they were to go on living like that, and writing like that, for ever and…
“I hate poetry and all its fucking ambitious son-of-a-bitches who call me a showman because I act myself”. Gregory Corso letter…
There's a cat sanctuary in the grounds of the Pyramid in Rome. This rather incongruous Egyptian style pyramid was built in…
It's been wet this August and last week was topped off by a cracker of a thunderstorm storm that dropped…
We're happier when we chat to strangers, but our instinct is to ignore them https://t.co/ExmL3GSCWw via @researchdigest — Tina Seelig…
Not bird not badger not beaver not bee Many creatures must make, but only one must seek within itself what…
Rhubarb, Rhubarb Words A definition of rhubarb - the noun - is meaningless background noise. This meaning is attributed to…
Valentine for Ernest Mann You can’t order a poem like you order a taco. Walk up to the counter, say,…
Some paintings are made to pair with a poem. Read Edward Thomas's As the Team's Head Brass and then take another look…
All agreed that 1917 had been a sad offender. All observed that 1918 did not look promising at its birth.…
Literary reputations come and go, rise and fall like food fads and fashion. Marjorie Pickthall - once so highly regarded that…
Hard to think of a better example of misplaced romantic nostalgia than yearning for the days before the era of…
I've been reading the quite wonderful Tirzah Garwood memoir Long Live Great Barfield - a book that deserves several posts…
We had just evacuated all the students to the playground, lined them up and done a head count. It wasn't…