March 20th, 2007
The same day as seeing The Tempest I bought an underground ticket to the British Library to browse their small Blake Exhibition. I was in an adaptation of Richard III at college last week, so have only just got round to writing about it. In fact my notes are scrawled in pencil over the back […]
March 2nd, 2007
I love “People”, it conveys the subject of death free from sentimentality but with truth and dignity. The tone is as final as death itself, yet it isn’t depressive. It offers an alternative to the scramble to achieve something “meaningful” for posterity; it presents the world that we create as being enough.
Here’s the whole poem, […]
January 29th, 2007
I was reading The Times in the library today, not my first choice of paper, but it was the only one that was left–apart from the Daily Mail, which I am so sick of. Usually I only offer the poetry page a cursory glance, but this time was the exception as I couldn’t believe the […]