13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat
“Psychoanalysts don’t usually write essays; they tend to write lectures or papers or chapters, or what…
The book of my soul
Image source: Gitksan woman Shaman and Chief, Kispiox, British Columbia, 1909, by George Thornton Emmons Collection no….
The Great Confinement
Image Source: photograph, Sarah Lee, Bethlem Museum of the Mind exhibition, The Guardian From Keats, Hyperion: Just…
The nobility of poetry and a normal life
Yesterday I visited the State Library of Victoria and there I read from the Collected Poetry…
Echoes of Emily
This morning I was dipping into Emily Dickinson’s Complete Poems, and I found by chance the…
An awakening
I have over the last two months been going through the program of creative recovery set…
Golden Arch
I was on my Sunday afternoon run a couple of weeks ago. It was a warm…
Belated
Another poem today from the collection I am curating, and have titled The Burning Archive. This…
On a requiem
Image Source: Requiem Kyrie Master Chart, from Vienna Review This morning I listened to an old…
5 reasons games add to culture
As well as being a serious student of literature and history, and the occasional listener to…