I've been looking for a particular poem for a while now. When someone used the hashtag #SherlockPoems in a Twitter…
I began this post in 2017. The original focus was Louis MacNeice's's poem "Brother Fire". MacNeice was a fire-watcher during…
Eighty years ago today - on January 26th, 1939 - the poet W.H.Auden - accompanied by his friend and sometime…
The Old Year The Old Year's gone away To nothingness and night: We cannot find him all the day Nor…
No snow where I am at the moment but here's a poem to enjoy now and also tuck away to…
It was Clive Bennett who got me traveling down this particular track. He's a real birder and maintains a wonderful…
Lament In December December’s come and all is dead; Weep, woods, for summer far has sped And leaves rot in…
"I have too many books but I only have my shelf to blame." The pun came via Twitter. As does…
There's the fog of war and there's the poetry of fog. A recent heavy mist in my patch of the…
What use is poetry? .... We have poetry So we do not die of history. - Meena Alexander I like poems…