2025: Year of Hope?
There is always a sense of urgency around New Year. Resolutions. Determinations. Termination perhaps. We are all a year closer to death and feel the urge to live our lives…
Stanton Family Christmas Newsletter 2024
To all our friends and family who keep in touch online, and anyone who wants to be friends, our Christmas newsletter.
Tom and Louise and the Underground Adventure
Tom and Louise are back in the Lake District. If they are going to help the dwarfs and elves they will have to journey underground
Counting the Cost
The statistics of death and destruction, the millions of refugees and displaced persons and the economic cost are horrific. But the figures only hint at the true cost of war…
Tom and Louise and the Sock Monster
Tom Louise, fresh from their adventures with the fire fairies, have a magical encounter with the water sprites.
Janet Stanton (1964 – 2024)
The poem I wrote for the funeral service In memory of my sister Janet (1964 - 2024)
The Art of Painting
A poem to celebrate the humanity and creativity of the Palestinian people that survives, and may yet transcend, the destructive brutality inflicted on them by Israel.
Democracy or Mob Rule?
It is almost 50 years to the day since I voted in the general election called by Edward Heath. He thought democracy was under threat from trade union power and…
Winter Solstice
A poem for the longest night of the year, a year in which darkness seems to have fallen on so many, in the forgotten war Sudan and the oh so…
The fox, the hare and the polar bear
Polaris by Simon Armitage Police are hunting high and low for the thief who nicked the winter snow. Who got their mitts on those glittery days? The Arctic fox, the…