The lesser pleasures of Tickencote

After visiting Tickencote church you naturally turn your attention to the village. It has a water mill on the Gwash - the Tickencote commun...

Geoffrey Hill and Mercian Hymns

I King of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of the M5: architect of    the historic rampart and ditch, the citadel a...

A Short Musical Interlude

Enjoy. Jussi Björling & Robert Merrill - Pearl Fishers Duet

The Ballad of Reading Goal

Each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard. Some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it...

Barack Obama: Nowhere Man

You might think a poem about George Bush is a funny way to introduce a post about Barack Obama, but for me it makes sense, there is a parall...