Nigeness

I recently mentioned A.E. Coppard , a writer whose name was unknown to me when I came across it - and seems to be generally forgotten, thoug...

Does this sonnet sound familiar? When I in dreams behold thy fairest shade Whose shade in dreams doth wake the sleeping morn The daytim...

In Derbyshire this weekend, the sun - blatantly defying the Met Office - was for much of the time shining, often bright and warm. Does this ...

An ekphrastic poem by Walter de la Mare, born on this day in 1873. A print of this picture (Hunters in the Snow) used to hang in the main ...

From the radio this morning came the stirring sound of a Cornish male voice choir belting out the county's 'national anthem', Tr...

Calendar-wise, today is the Big One for us Englishmen and women - St George's Day, and the traditionally accepted birth date of Willia...

I guess I first read Kingsley Amis's The Green Man some time in the early Seventies (it was published in 1969), and perhaps again not ma...