Poem: Lockdown
Lockdown If you can tell lies, you must stay home.If you can live your life, you…
Poem: Quarantine
Here is a poem I have composed today about what we are all going through. Take…
Poem: The mask
The mask I connect through the transparent maskTriggering autostart with the first breath The first gasp…
Notes on a Balinese cockfight
I am in Bali, staying for a short stay luxury escape at Padma Resort, Ubud, which…
Poem: The prophet in a box
This first poem of 2020, composed this morning, may herald a more fertile year. For in…
Free speech for public servants and Osip Mandelstam
During the week the High Court of Australia passed judgement on a case in which a…
Heaney on Writing
https://wp.me/p1YJAa-2xN This interview with Seamus Heaney (vale Seamus) is wonderful. I particularly like the line that…
Poem: how to make a life
Here is a poem I have written this morning that is, I suppose, a kind of…
Poem: The State Historical Museum, Moscow
On my trip to Moscow I visited the State Historical Museum in Moscow, housed in the…
Poem: Travel Song
I have returned from my travels, and found, despite my earlier intention to write blog posts…