Funeral Poem: The Queen — Reflections on a Royal Blue Monday
A poem inspired by the Annie Liebovitz photograph she took of Her Majesty Elizabeth II with her corgis in 2016....
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The Pike — A Poem For Lancashire Day
Time to honour our gradely county on Lancashire Day so I wrote about The Pike — a part of the landscape I see first thing in the morning and last thing at night....
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Lest – Remembrance Day Poem for Grandad in the Green Howards
This poem is for my Grandad Maurice Wilfred Earlam. As it would have been his 96th birthday recently and today is Remembrance Day he has been on my mind a lot lately...
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Mad Girl’s Love Song: Which Thunderbird Should Sylvia Plath Have Fallen In Love With?
In 1953 Sylvia Plath wrote one of her most famous poems the villanelle Mad Girl’s Love Song inspired by the anguish of waiting for a lover who never arrives....
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The World’s Shortest Poem and Muhammad Ali
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