Poetry, RattleBag and Rhubarb, WW1

The Barrage Lifts

After forty five years it’s time to re-wire! And the start of my re-wirement coincides with the centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Tomorrow – July 1st 1916 at 7.30 am  – 100 years ago. When I started teaching in 1970 that day, and that war – that cataclysmic break in human history – were…

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