Monthly Archives: October 2009
the literary life: with a little help from my friends
Laetitia Pilkington and the Hellfire Club Can you imagine. I was asked to send some poems for consideration in the new online literary site Praxilla - so I put together a submission of about five poems – well, okay, exactly … Continue reading
Filed under books, Living With Words, poetry, Shameless Puffs, the meaning of life, the past
happy Halloween – and happy birthday John Keats
This Living Hand This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou wouldst wish thine … Continue reading
sonnets for autumn with Colin McEnroe
“Earth has not anything to show more fair…” Hmm, okay. I’ve landed back in London to an absolute whirlwind, which so far has been mainly a whirlwind of sonnets, one way and another… my desk is a mountain of sonnet … Continue reading
Filed under poetry, Shameless Puffs
three thin guys: street life from above
Okay, so Mlle B goes out with some friends for half-term. I’m out, but we speak, etc, and when I call her at 10.45 she says her phone battery’s running down but they’re on the way to somebody’s house. She … Continue reading
Filed under balcony, Hackney, Life, Stoke Newington
