Some authors are blessed with illustrators who enhance their work with the distinction of their own. So it was in…
Before the Charge The night is still and the air is keen, Tense with menace the time crawls by, In…
If we had some bacon we could have bacon and eggs but we've got no eggs. That First World War…
August 1914 What in our lives is burnt In the fire of this? The heart’s dear granary? The much we…
In Ivor Gurney's nightmarish vision, the dead among the living bear dire warnings and mockery. Ballad of the Three Spectres…
Poltroon - the very word is like a ... what? a.) A North American mammal of the raccoon family known…
The Dancers All day beneath the hurtling shells Before my burning eyes Hover the dainty demoiselles -- The peacock dragon-flies.…
The End and the Beginning After every war someone has to clean up. Things won’t straighten themselves up,…
Blackbirds are notorious for being able to mimic the sounds they hear as they hop about the celestial chimney pots…