Nigeness

A weekend of warm autumn sunshine in the Derbyshire demiparadise (where I was on an all too brief visit), and the Great Butterfly Summer goe...

Talking of feminine line-endings, here is a charming little lyric (titled as a Song) by the Rev. R.W. Dixon, Victorian churchman and poet.Ch...

... a chance to revisit my revisit to Desiderata .

Here is one by Kay Ryan. As ever with her poems, there is really nothing to add . Except perhaps to point to her exquisite craftsmanship, he...

I've been rereading Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (published 1941, the first novel he wrote in English). My copy is a ...

The NigeCorp workstorm should be dying down soon, and I'm wondering whether to continue anthologising a while longer - I have found it u...

In this strange, haunting poem, the inland pastoralist Robert Frost takes to the sea shore. The beach scene is real enough, fixed by the pas...