The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Tag Archives: climate change
The Last Water #writephoto #poem #sonnet #climatechange
Cold Jack, content and job well done, creeps home, Allowing Spring her turn to warm the earth. Crocus tongues push out through softening loam As glass-eyed shepherds watch their flock give birth. We, unplucked youth, prime cocked with urgent sap, … Continue reading
Posted in #writephoto, creative writing, miscellany, poems, poetry, sonnets
Tagged #writephoto, climate change, creative writing, poem, poetry
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Climate Of Opinions #womanatwar #filmreview
There’s a point in the film, Woman At War where the heroine, a formidable Icelandic environmental warrior, Halla, is bombarded by the adverse public opinions that her economic terrorism generates. It’s visceral and hurtful and managed by government spin but … Continue reading
Posted in Film, miscellany, politics, review
Tagged climate change, environmental protest, Iceland, woman at war
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Out Of Place
I had two experiences this week that, in their contrasting ways, made me feel both good and awkward and almost certainly said more about me than anything else. Last Friday, I took part in a demonstration outside Parliament. It was … Continue reading
The Glory Of The Garden: Wither Goes It? #poem #rudyardkipling
From time to time I like to ruin one of the Nation’s favourite poems, as voted some years ago in a BBC poll. This time I have been musing on the hottest ever February, in doing so, have taken an … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, poems, poetry
Tagged climate change, poem, poetry, Rudyard Kipling, the glory of the garden
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I hope I’m wrong…
Climate change is a topic that will intersect the headlines for many years, well after Islamic terrorists and refugee crises, crumbling Euros and size zero models have joined Colonialism and races up unclimbed mountains as paragraphs in history texts. This … Continue reading
A sticky end
While I potter around my book and to celebrate my 1000th like (or so the nice nerdy little algorithms at WordPress tell me), here are a couple of sonnets I wrote a while back on the subject of climate change … Continue reading
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