The Day and The Hour by David Betteridge One: What distinguishes the worst of architects from the bestof bees is this: that the architects raise their structuresin... Continue reading
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As I started planning this column the temperature outside was 35 °C, and the surrounding fields like tinder. I had been in Cambridgeshire less than a week.... Continue reading
Yrevals by JP Seabright Bodies rise from the bottom of the sea.It’s a miracle! some cry, a baptismalblessing, a daring rescue. Sanctuaryfound for these bleached bones.Limbs are... Continue reading
Lock Me Up by Mike Jenkins Lock me up , Rishi Sunak!I have committed a thought -crime,I am a modern Winston Smith,I call myself Mihangel Morgannwg. Rip... Continue reading
Love and Politics: a tanka (Japanese extended haiku-like verse-form: 31 syllables in all; lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables, rhyming ababb) 1 (Love-Poet) Love is... Continue reading
Jean Valjean stole that loaf of bread for all of us by Fred Voss These machinists or welders or overhead crane operatorswho voted for Trumpand wave huge... Continue reading
Vigil by Lya Vollering When we heard in 2021 about the plans of this government to turn the notorious youth prison in Medomsley, Co. Durham (1800 young... Continue reading
Please Be Advised by Helen Bovaird Ryan I’d just like to start this morning by welcoming you one and allTo this wonderful institution Our government, many thanks... Continue reading
What I like about Jim Aitken’s poems is the way they can surprise us by travelling at speed from A to B, and sometimes a lot further.... Continue reading
Apocryphal Idols by Cheryl Vail, with image above by Martin Gollan Liberty’s a goddess yet how can she embody her name when she isn’t permitted to be ... Continue reading
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