Conrad’s darkness
“I have never been able to find in any man’s book or any man’s talk anything…
Dr Cogito brings his mind to heel
Here is another in my series of Dr Cogito poems Dr Cogito brings his mind to…
Improvisation on a train
On a red sore train I wonder what I will leave Behind when I am gone…
Poem: The state of politics
Poetry and politics make for strained companions. The politics of poets is unreliable, inclined to the…
Poem: Nouriel’s Shoes
The following poem is from my Burning Archive collection. It had its origins in a strategic…
The infinite conversation and survival
I have written before in the Burning Archive of the metaphor for writing, and its eternal…
Mr Dylan’s bad language
I like to check out the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The world of…
Adam Phillips, In Writing
Adam Phillips: “Writing needn’t be a world domination project… but just the attempt to find enough…
Waste books and epigrams
“The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for…
Six asides about culture (and Havel, reblogged)
“Who among us can know what may seem today to be marginal graphomania might not one…