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A web waves in the warm breeze, caught between ancient wooden struts, indefensible, beneath an empty seat. It splays to breaking point;  fine-knit, like a fibre-glass veil; delicate strength resisting air. Behind, purple bell-shaped blooms bow their heads in unison, deferring to the weight of a sprinkler’s misty jet, that fans out in the shapeContinue reading “Echo”

O 6th September 2021 – I am awaiting my radio appearance on BBC Essex – my old stomping ground of Essex University. I’m going to talk about Echo, which you can read on this site. I wrote it quite a while back in the Summer of 2020, when we spent a lot of time inContinue reading “Echo – some thoughts about my poem.”

I wrote this poem right at the beginning of the Covid crisis, before the lockdowns, and when Greta Thunberg was also hitting the headlines with her excellent speeches about climate change. I had a student sitting beside me at the time, and as he worked, I jotted down this poem too. I so often doContinue reading “Westminster Bridge 2020”