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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British Photographer Andrew Brooks with the Visual Power of the Romantic Painters
Fine art photographer Andrew Brooks happily acknowledges he is standing on the shoulders of giants when it comes to creating his own unique atmospheric pictures. Seven years ago British photographer Andrew Brooks took me on after a series of unexpected events kick-started my life as a freelance writer. As...
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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
Read my Number 1 Google ranked blog on Muhammad Ali and the world’s shortest poem. Ker pow! 🥊...
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Sophie Willan, Comedian: Alma’s Not Normal
Never mind the bog rolls, if ever the country needed a reet good gallows laugh it is now. Fortunately for us, there’s a comedian who can help us in our dark hour....
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