The book of my soul
Image source:Â Gitksan woman Shaman and Chief, Kispiox, British Columbia, 1909, by George Thornton Emmons Collection no….
Wasting time on conceptual poetry
I borrowed from my local public library Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton anthology (2nd edition), edited…
The Great Confinement
Image Source: photograph, Sarah Lee, Bethlem Museum of the Mind exhibition, The Guardian From Keats, Hyperion: Just…
Dr Cogito’s Rebellion
The following poem I composed in the last year, and takes up in an over-educated time…
Poem: one thousand steps
Here is a poem I wrote over the last year, prompted by a walk along one…
Thomas Bernhard’s soliloquies
Looking around my study this morning for a prompt for a post, still with the idea…
The nobility of poetry and a normal life
Yesterday I visited the State Library of Victoria and there I read from the Collected Poetry…
Myths of power: merchant, soldier, sage…?
David Priestland has written a provocative book, Merchant, soldier, sage: a new history of power. His…
Echoes of Emily
This morning I was dipping into Emily Dickinson’s Complete Poems, and I found by chance the…