W.H.Auden
Who does not love the spring deserves no lovers
I take my title from the South African poet Roy Campbell (1901–1957), who knew a thing or two about lovers…
Columbia, Cats, Cass, and a Spring Stickybeak
Before decamping to Brooklyn for the month I saw this on a utility box on Riverside Drive. Someone had gone…
The East Coker Opera House Murders #1940Club
Based on his published letters,1940 was a busy year for T.S.Eliot. He was based in London and working at Faber…
1940 and the #1940Club
Hope I'm not jumping the gun here but the #1940Club starts next week and I've been gearing up and getting…
Stroll, Soodle or Stroam
Soodle - it means means to walk in a slow or leisurely manner; to stroll, saunter. With so many alternatives…
New York City Through the Window: Poetry
In 1975 the poet Allen Ginsberg was in hospital. At a later poetry reading he explained the causes in an…
W. H. Auden and New York
Eighty years ago today - on January 26th, 1939 - the poet W.H.Auden - accompanied by his friend and sometime…
Thank You, Fog
There's the fog of war and there's the poetry of fog. A recent heavy mist in my patch of the…
Partition
"I was so rushed I had not time to go into the details," - Cyril Ratcliffe. The political leaders of…
Russian – American Romance
Russian - American Romance In my land and yours they do hit the hay and sleep the whole night in…
A Ballad on the Taxes
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
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
About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place…
The Night Mail
This is the Night Mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters…
Darkness and Light
What 60 schools can tell us about teaching 21st century skills. Here's the TEDx Denver version of the talk Grant Lichtman gave at…