A Sonnet for Gaza
Image by Maitane Azurmendi: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International Hibu Abu Nada (1991-2023) was killed along with her son in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike on 20th October 2023.…
HERB AND JUDY AND I
Many years ago I met two heroes of the American Civil rights Movement, Herb Shapiro and Judy Shapiro. only they never told me! Herb is dead now but I would…
A Year of Trees
A journey through the native trees of Britain, the facts, the fiction and the dreams.
TWELFTH NIGHT ON ORMSGILL REZZA.
A poem for Twelfth Night inspired by The Twelve Days of Christmas and the bird life on Ormsgill Reservoir - or the Rezza as we know it in Barrow-in-Furness.
Stanton Family Christmas Newsletter 2022
The Stanton family Christmas Newsletter 2022 with updates on Mike and Dee, our children Matthew and Katie and Basil the dog.
A Birthday Poem
I wrote this poem yesterday. Today I am seventy. It is never too late. The inspiration came from a poetry workshop at Manchester Maggies on Thursday. Our usual leader, Clare…
Three Poems About Conkers
It is the conker season, when the young and the young hearted scour parks and woodland floors for horse chestnuts. I have met a few people under the conker tree…
Black Combe
Black Combe belongs to the Furness Peninsula. It is our fell, our connection to the Lake District.