I've been hibernating over the winter and after yesterday's clear blue sky and rise in temperature for the final day of February I feel I can really get going. Not that I've been sitting around doing nothing. I've turned over a lot of reading pages over the past two months, published a new book, written… Continue reading Spring Musings
Many years ago, too many years ago, a boyfriend presented me with a book of Gerard Manley Hopkins poems for my 18th birthday. Hopkins was a poet who was new to me and I was delighted to receive the gift. I was living in Oxford at the time and the boyfriend was studying at the… Continue reading Binsey Poplars
As I gaze upon this naked page My brain is filled with anguish and sorrow, As the actor feels upon the stage I speak in words that I can only borrow.
From Lorna's Command Centre 