Poems

Into the Night

4 December 2014 2:30 pm

You fling yourself out the door into the wind and start to row yourself down the steep hill with your…

The Imagined Day

22 November 2014 9:00 am

The imagined day includes sunshine and shopping And people saying Yes and being on my side. There’ll also be traffic…

The Imagined Day

20 November 2014 3:00 pm

The imagined day includes sunshine and shopping And people saying Yes and being on my side. There’ll also be traffic…

The Imagined Day

20 November 2014 3:00 pm

The imagined day includes sunshine and shopping And people saying Yes and being on my side. There’ll also be traffic…

The Seabirds

1 November 2014 9:00 am

Out on the crumbling landscape’s farthest edge, Their winter journey starts, and while I know Some names, I can’t recall…

The Seabirds

30 October 2014 3:00 pm

Out on the crumbling landscape’s farthest edge, Their winter journey starts, and while I know Some names, I can’t recall…

The Seabirds

30 October 2014 3:00 pm

Out on the crumbling landscape’s farthest edge, Their winter journey starts, and while I know Some names, I can’t recall…

Winter Words

25 October 2014 9:00 am

Calendar pages: one scrumpled day dies in a garden spun to fools’ gold, where wind mews over twigs and bones…

Winter Words

23 October 2014 2:00 pm

Calendar pages: one scrumpled day dies in a garden spun to fools’ gold, where wind mews over twigs and bones…

Winter Words

23 October 2014 2:00 pm

Calendar pages: one scrumpled day dies in a garden spun to fools’ gold, where wind mews over twigs and bones…

Monsieur Clermont

18 October 2014 9:00 am

That August, in La France Profonde, the frelons were out in force, honey-gold cruisers of late summer air, their poigniards…

Monsieur Clermont

16 October 2014 2:00 pm

That August, in La France Profonde, the frelons were out in force, honey-gold cruisers of late summer air, their poigniards…

Monsieur Clermont

16 October 2014 2:00 pm

That August, in La France Profonde, the frelons were out in force, honey-gold cruisers of late summer air, their poigniards…

Serenade

4 October 2014 9:00 am

Come to the garden, that familiar place Where life renews itself against all odds. Untightening buds act out their memory,…

Serenade

2 October 2014 1:00 pm

Come to the garden, that familiar place Where life renews itself against all odds. Untightening buds act out their memory,…

Serenade

2 October 2014 1:00 pm

Come to the garden, that familiar place Where life renews itself against all odds. Untightening buds act out their memory,…

The soul, a poem, John Whitworth

27 September 2014 8:00 am

The soul is like a little mouse. He hides inside the body’s house With anxious eyes and twitchy nose As…

The Soul

25 September 2014 1:00 pm

The soul is like a little mouse. He hides inside the body’s house With anxious eyes and twitchy nose As…

The Soul

25 September 2014 1:00 pm

The soul is like a little mouse. He hides inside the body’s house With anxious eyes and twitchy nose As…

Mr Dixon

20 September 2014 9:00 am

I can’t think of anyone else still alive who knew him, and could reminisce with me about his special kindness,…

Mr Dixon

18 September 2014 1:00 pm

I can’t think of anyone else still alive who knew him, and could reminisce with me about his special kindness,…

Mr Dixon

18 September 2014 1:00 pm

I can’t think of anyone else still alive who knew him, and could reminisce with me about his special kindness,…

Sometimes it’s Better to Give than to Receive

13 September 2014 9:00 am

I can see your teeth clench with rage at the gift I have pressed on you, which manoeuvres you into…

A Theatre Supper

13 September 2014 9:00 am

I don’t know why it’s become important to me: the idea of a theatre supper at home? Maybe it’s a…

Sometimes it’s Better to Give than to Receive

11 September 2014 1:00 pm

I can see your teeth clench with rage at the gift I have pressed on you, which manoeuvres you into…