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We have been dazzled too long by the might of inevitability ( Read more... )

...and the tyrants of Tehran and associated places, that people have thought of it before. This is a poem by GK Chesterton (yes, he who made bad jokes about Jews - believe it or not):

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ELEGY FOR HILLSBOROUGH ( Read more... )

This is by one F.R.Duplantier. I have no idea who he is, but the limerick seems to me quite perfect of its kind.

With so much of the world in dire straits,
Even we with our meager estates
Should each do what we can
To relieve Fellow Man:
Let's give all that we have to Bill Gates.

Kipling's verse is a never-failing avalanche of pleasure and fun. People remember serious poems such as "If", or moody ones such as "Recessional", or even solemnly amused ones such as "Sestina of the tramp-royal"; but who speaks - as they should - of his dozens of pieces of delightful absurdity, such as this ( Read more... )

What though the night be dark, the skies be moonless ( Read more... )

I have been having a restless and unsatisfied week, working little and eating way too much. Today I also had to reach an extremely painful decision, putting an end to contact with someone very close to me and for whom I care very much, but who is bent on drawing me in the chaos that is his life and sucking in my extremely scarce resources in ( Read more... )

"What have you done today to make you feel proud?" Well, most of what I have done has been the exact opposite - for one thing I suffer from an addiction to food that needs to be curbed. But I have completed the prologue to a new HP universe novel-length story called KATHARINE MALFOY: VENGEANCE ITSELF, which I intend to publish in one or two of ( Read more... )

Today's piece of writing is a poem I wrote about fourteen years ago, on the tragedy of the Sheffield soccer stadium where ninety-six people died ( Read more... )