16 December 2012, 1.33pm
This is no time for sadness. Once you have a warm coat, A room of your own, And a twenty in your pocket, You have it all. I will tell you to look twice Next time you feel sad - There will be a light...
View ArticleWonderful Word: To Kill Time
Wonderful word: to kill time! To contain it is a struggle. After all, who does not fear it? Where does it offer a place, A final resting place for Being? See, the day slows itself in defiance of That...
View ArticleThe Loved Ones
Here your friend lies awake in the still night Still warm from you, still full of your perfume, From your look and hair and kiss- oh midnight, Oh moon and stars and blue haze! In you, beloved, my...
View ArticleThe Winslow Boy at the Old Vic Theatre
Running at the Old Vic Theatre until 25 May 2013 This is a play about right and wrong, but also about our petty judgements of others. The summary on the Old Vic’s website is as follows: Driven by a...
View ArticleMacbeth at Trafalgar Studios
Running until 27th April 2013 in Trafalgar Studios This show is *officially* sold out, and I’m afraid the only way you’re going to get in is if you brave the Baltic weather and queue for either day...
View ArticleTrelawny of the Wells at the Donmar Warehouse
Running until 13th April 2013 Played in Donmar Warehouse, Trelawny of the Wells by Arthur Wing Pinero is a beautiful tribute to the theatrical medium itself and the heart of Covent Garden could not be...
View ArticleRain in London
Ruth and I were walking across Millennium Bridge. It was April and we had decided to spend the morning wandering around the city. Shakespeare’s Globe was the primary draw for us, but the admission fees...
View ArticleReviewing I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Two weeks ago I popped into Waterstones on Oxford Street and saw a display of ‘Debut Novels’. The cover above caught my eye and I started reading the blurb — a dear friend of mine who was with me said...
View ArticleDas Kreuz, Part 1
‘Das Kreuz’ stands in an artificial gap in the woods at the edge of a sheer cliff – and that is all I can remember of it. I do not know why it was built, or the name of the town at the foot of its...
View ArticleDas Kreuz, Part 2
On some weekends, Johann and Nicola drove us to Zwiefalten, to the outdoor swimming pool with its three-metre-high diving board and ten-metre deep end. This, to me, was the pinnacle of European life....
View ArticleDas Kreuz, Part 3 – Conclusion
I did not turn to my hosts for assistance, partly because I was adamant I did not need help and partly because I was sulking that they were having such a better time than me. The only events I would...
View ArticleBang Said The Gun – Stand Up Poetry
This week has been remarkable. It started as any other week — bran flakes and coffee — but I soon found myself buying business cards, getting a spot to read some of my poems in Waterstones Piccadilly...
View ArticleA Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Globe
Running until 12 October 2013 at Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside Time and time again The Globe proves it offers the best value theatre tickets in London. For just £5 you can lean up against the stage...
View ArticleSection IX of Autumn Journal
Now we are back to normal, now the mind is Back to the even tenor of the usual day Skidding no longer across the uneasy camber Of the nightmare way. We are safe though others have crashed the railings...
View ArticleThe Throne
The Throne After Josh Ritter I was thinking ’bout my river days I was thinking ’bout me and you and the tree that led us to part ways with all that moved us to be mute. The Throne was knocked down as...
View ArticleBotany
Bluebirds sang from bluebells and terraced ivy rose to the clasp of a stocking held to skin, suspended between silk and stubbornness; twisted tendrils and curled fingers around the heart of a bulb...
View ArticleMean Time
Every day, a red ball drops to mark one o’clock in Greenwich. The Octagon Room echoes and the camera obscura darkens. Measures of time are in the distance from this, the prime meridian, and longitude...
View ArticleWhy I Write
Let me just say, it is not for the money, because there is none. Recently I’ve thought a lot about this question for poetry competitions, magazine submissions and my own curiosity. Since Christmas, my...
View ArticleVoyage of Discovery
Once they discovered pendulums do not keep time at sea, they understood why the maps were off. Distances were unfathomable without knowing what time it was at home and they knew first-hand the risk of...
View ArticleÉadaoín’s Celebrating-500-Followers Giveaway!
I am very grateful to all of you for following my blog and seeing as I’m about to haul myself to another country, I wanted to shed some of my beloved literary possessions. In case your browser is...
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