Anthony Thwaite

Oh dear

13 June 2015 9:00 am

How many times these days I say those words, Muttering them quietly under my breath Or petulantly as the telephone…

Language

29 November 2014 9:00 am

And when I landed in America, aged ten, I knew the language was the same. And yet At once the…

Time to Go

11 January 2014 9:00 am

Feeling my age, too soon too tired, Whatever gifts I had no more required, I am a hireling called in…

The Colours of London

6 July 2013 9:00 am

(after Yoshio Markino, 1911) Colours of women, a grey-veiled pink, a bloom Fading to yellow, stippled, dust-hung, flecked Soot startling…