Belated
Another poem today from the collection I am curating, and have titled The Burning Archive. This…
The Tiger’s Eye closes for the last time
The great Australian historian or writer, Inga Clendinnen has died. Image Source: http://www.smh.com.au/national/people/warrior-of-the-mind-20140810-3dha8.html There is a moving…
The forest
This morning I have spent curating my collection of poems, The Burning Archive. From this collection,…
Akhmatova’s Agony
Late last week I rearranged my desk and put in place several mementoes of my single…
The glass half full
For my post tonight, a poem I wrote a couple of years ago, prompted by Wallace…
Repeat great words repeat them stubbornly
The poem that I have been memorising, learning, getting by heart tonight is Zbigniew Herbert’s “The…
Simple steps
Here is a poem I wrote some years ago on a day when sickness is tugging…
Berryman and the unpredictability of dream songs
There is a remarkable video somewhere on that shows a television interview with John Berryman, if…
“Ich habe genung” (I have enough)
A change of scene: music. If I have an aim in life, it is to leave…
Immortal diamond
Gerard Manley Hopkins was a poet I encountered on my parents’ shelves as a child. A…