
Here is a poem about the last Emperor of Byzantium. I sent it recently to a married couple I know, who both liked it. She said it’s about me. He said it’s about Gordon Brown.
The idea behind the poem is that we are all now inheritors of fallen cities, walls of… Continue reading The Travails of Gordon Brown

Now that the new “One World…” poem-poster collection is up at last and as I begin to collect myself again and think about how to make sure that people know it is there, I want to record a good email conversation I had recently with Lakshmi Holmström, translator of the two Tamil poems selected for… Continue reading "No language is chauvinistic of itself; it is our misuse of language that makes it so."

Thank you for visiting. This is my first post.
To celebrate, I shall set out three propositions which for me are seminal. The fact that all three refer to priests requires me to say that I myself am not religious. The fact is interesting, nevertheless. As a combination, the three act as a kind of base… Continue reading Three propositions to get us off the ground