Heaney on Writing
https://wp.me/p1YJAa-2xN This interview with Seamus Heaney (vale Seamus) is wonderful. I particularly like the line that…
11 years with WordPress – from the archive: Good Government Starts Today
Earlier this week I got a message from WordPress that I had passed my 11th anniversary…
What I am reading… Gerard Manley Hopkins
Here, listen to the uncanny insight… 75 The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less;…
Reflections on 2018 – 1. self-portrait at 55
The year is drawing to a close, so time to begin reflecting on what the year’s…
What I am reading… Solzhenitsyn on his limited experience
From a review of recent books on Solzhenitsyn come this brief account of the conservative Russian…
The floating life within
In the 1980s or 1990s I wrote down on an index card, this observation from Robert…
The political ghosts of literature
I have been reading some fragments of Maurice Blanchot – The Madness of the Day, The…
Poem(s): To my errant mind
The following poem, “To my errant mind,” was originally published in my collection, After the Pills,…
Poem: Monday morning
Monday morning Three strikes on the snooze button Then unwilling, still dark within, I step out…
Poem: The unwritten book
This morning I have been writing poetry, and so for a post today let me share…