Top song, tip-top cornet!

Marlene Dietrich “Go away from my window”

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‘Poets often write about grief, but rarely so well about its complexity.’ I’m grateful to Graeme Richardson for this review of my new @carcanet collection, Come Here to This Gate, in The Sunday Times.

Hustle and bustle
- a mussel tussle
#RuddyTurnstones

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“This common body,
 Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,
 Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide
 To rot itself with motion”
#ShakespeareSunday

Happy photographic accident? Ringed plovers, ‘Ringos’, beach ninjas … are charismatic little birds; here a strange play of light had washed through them.

Quite the tapestry

Of interest David Belbin

A-Wash with light

Pleased to hold in my hands a copy of Spelt Magazine, Issue 10 and very grateful to the editors for publishing within its pages my poem on 'Vimy Ridge Farm'. Kinoulton - it has arrived the very day of the untimely death of Capt. F C Dietrichsen, another Sherwood Forester (2/7th).

Bar-tailed godwit stepping out in summer plumage

A caramel start this Sunday morning

If you go down to the marsh today …

Come Here To This Gate/They Exchange Glances – a joint poetry launch with Rory Waterman and Gregory Woods - thanks to both poets and Five Leaves Bookshop

Well that was quite an entrance! The Onion Johnnies have well and truly arrived - with a gorgeous fresh delivery of onions, garlic and shallots… Merci les Johnnies!!!! 🧅❤️

Moroccan colours

“Matisse did not travel to see places, but to see light, to restore, through a change in its quality, the freshness it had lost as a result of being seen day after day”

- Pierre Schneider
🖼️ Window at Tangier (1912)

Sunset, sunrise