Based on his published letters,1940 was a busy year for T.S.Eliot. He was based in London and working at Faber…
Hope I'm not jumping the gun here but the #1940Club starts next week and I've been gearing up and getting…
Soodle - it means means to walk in a slow or leisurely manner; to stroll, saunter. With so many alternatives…
In 1975 the poet Allen Ginsberg was in hospital. At a later poetry reading he explained the causes in an…
Eighty years ago today - on January 26th, 1939 - the poet W.H.Auden - accompanied by his friend and sometime…
There's the fog of war and there's the poetry of fog. A recent heavy mist in my patch of the…
"I was so rushed I had not time to go into the details," - Cyril Ratcliffe. The political leaders of…
Russian - American Romance In my land and yours they do hit the hay and sleep the whole night in…
We pay through the nose for subjecting of foes. Abroad we're defeated, at home, we 're cheated. The ides of…
Epitaph on a Tyrant Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy…
About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place…
This is the Night Mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters…
What 60 schools can tell us about teaching 21st century skills. Here's the TEDx Denver version of the talk Grant Lichtman gave at…
On the last day of the year, time to show an affirming flame as another low dishonest decade ends. I’ll…