My Albion

Due to heavy rainfall the Ouse and other Yorkshire rivers are now heavilyflooding and for the past four days the water levels have r...

In a previous blogpost I wrote about my writer's tryst, where I spent time working with my MA thesis this summer. Of course, no ...

and abstinence crowns all our care with martyr-laurels for this day - Veni Coronaberis, a garland for Helen Waddell, Geoffrey Hill ...

And eet manye sondry metes, mortrews and puddynges, Wombe cloutes and wilde brawen and egges [with grece yfryed]. - Piers Plowman, Will...

He went into the garden, beneath the shade - The Song of Roland, line 11 (translated by Glyn Webster) During my most recent sojourn in ...

  This summer I read Joseph Brodskys Roman elegies , a set of poems invoking the minutiae of everyday life and the great shadow of history...