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....

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...

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...

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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