The Dad Poet April was National Poetry Month in the US, a fact that might have passed me by had I not been a long-time follower of David over at The Dad Poet.I first came across his blog when I spotte… more →
No more wriggling out of writing ......wrote 4 days ago: A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.-J … more →
wrote 5 days ago: lost 30 no gills wears leggings a keats no gills wears leggings, and exercise. exercise excessive. h … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Museums at Night: Poetry Night at MERL happened on Saturday I volunteered to man the a small selecti … more →
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wrote 1 week ago: Wendy Waters is the best unpublished writer I know. We met as a result of her commenting on a review … more →
wrote 1 week ago: This one’s rather self-explanatory… I haven’t posted in a while because I’ve … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Wivenhoe Town Council are about to bury a time capsule to mark the diamond jubilee of the Queen … more →
wrote 1 week ago: I heard the actor Samuel West reading Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” on Poetry Ple … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Amsterdam Letter by Jean Garrigue “The urn and the garland of leaves”, seen in a canal side sh … more →
wrote 1 week ago: “I believe for every drop of rain that falls….” crooned Frank. The proliferation o … more →
wrote 1 week ago: How now, rustics! Wither are you bound? It occurred to me about five minutes ago that you read a fai … more →
wrote 1 week ago: that Keats had cursed Newton for “shattering the rainbow”. but in fact, the explanation of prism … more →
wrote 1 week ago: There is no such thing as an emerging butterfly. There are caterpillars and there are butterflies. I … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Like many people, I am wont to heavily mythologize the Romantic poets. It’s difficult not to. … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Ciao a tutti! I have so much to tell you. I’ve been in Europe for the past couple of weeks and … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: “…many thousands of [British] men and women…have sloughed off their native dialects and acquir … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: John Dillon St, 16th May, 2012 114 views to date. 114 times someone has looked at this blog. It … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: We are so pleased and excited to be able to bring to you tracks from Rich’s new CD. The title … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: ‘There gathered round her every goddess, every Nereid that was in the deep salt sea. Glauce wa … more →