The Chinese Ancients
I have had a dry spell the last few days, and so have dug into my…
The book of my soul
Image source: 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…
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…
Emily’s Enigma
The enigma of Emily Dickinson for me is how she shows that the very act of…
An awakening
I have over the last two months been going through the program of creative recovery set…
Poetry: to redeem or to love the world?
Featured on aldaily.com today is an article from The Atlantic with the provocative title of “why…