Tuesday, September 2, 2025

What I Learnt From Watching Television Archeology (Poems I've written #9)

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  What I Learnt From Watching Television Archeology   We've found another body!  Cut to cleavage shots of fine young animal: bare should...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

THREE ACT PLAY. FICTION IN VERSE. And a parody by Marcus Bales.

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A version of this poem was originally published in Meniscus. It was an early attempt   to write fiction in verse. After the poem, you can re...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Jeremy Hooker's 'With a Stranger's eyes'.

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  Published by Shearsman Books 2025. A longer version of this essay was first published in the Brazen Head as   The Watchful Muse  clicking ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

William the Marshal, or, the Joys of Research.

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 William the Marshal, realising that the French King has no interest in Peace: 'Good Sir, I'd appreciate it if you'd explain one...
Monday, July 7, 2025

Review of Robbie Coburn’s The Foal in the Wire

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This review originally appeared in the Brazen Head, July 2025. Robbie Coburn’s  The Foal  in the Wire (Lothian, 2025, 121 pages)    Set in r...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Shackleton's Grave (A WIsh) Poems I have written #8

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Shackleton’s Grave ( A Wish )   There will be peace and an end to traveling, the colour of ocean under a polar sky, solid as mountains, to b...
Friday, June 27, 2025

The Haunting of Borley rectory. The story of a ghost story by Sean O'Connor.

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  The Haunting of Borley rectory. The story of a ghost story by Sean O'Connor. In my tattered, because old and much read, ‘Folklore Myth...