How to Circus
Alas, it is not in my (current) course budget to arrange for my students to go whooshing about on the flying trapeze...
Read MoreJohn Crutchfield on Elliott Paul Orr
A friend testifies to the reality of one’s memories. A friend rescues the past from unreality...
Read MoreSurfing, Jazz, Beats
The writing temperament comes to light as a condition of being. If there was a point, it was learning to read...
Read MoreWalking Worthy
The Word was always there, and so, inside my body, I never felt alone. Now, postchurch, I turn to poems and songs in place of Bible verses...
Read MoreJunior ranks are condemned to a chain of perpetual fear…
Putin manages the military in much the same way as he does the wider Russian state, choosing loyalty to him above professional competence...
Read MoreWhy did Ukraine give up the Bomb?
In 1991, Ukraine became an independent country and the world’s third largest nuclear power...
Read MoreEven people with no interest in field guides know about them...
Read MoreWhen my first book of poems came out in 1992, I learned what it could mean to be seen as a political poet for no other reason than because of who or what one is...
Read MoreGridlocked traffic, summer solstice, 9.15am. Upper deck 243, Dalston Junction to Goswell Road, who wouldn’t look down on this sort of commute?
Read MoreThe other day a card arrived: a picture of mother, father, and child, teeth bared, cheeks pulsing with fresh blood. The baby looks more like him, with that nearly translucent-white skin.
Read MoreIf, in the midst of this elated day, / someone took him aside with the stern warning, / Most of your life will not be like this morning...
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