Arts Articles
In the labyrinth
In the labyrinth There are no wrong turns And no dead ends. Each step brings you on Inevitably, inexorably, Towards your destination
On surviving the operation
Because I did not die, Two strangers Continue to live in a world of darkness. Another two to suffer the half-life offered by dialysis. All made poorer by my survival.
‘Resettlement’ in the East
On 27 January 1945 advancing Russian troops liberated the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in Poland. 27 January has become Holocaust Memorial Day when we remember ‘the final solution to the Jewish question’. At the time it was cynically promoted as ‘resettlement’ in the East.
The hour-glass
I am but an hour-glass. These tiny glinting grains Comprise my store of seconds, My sum of joys and pains.
The M25: a national treasure
Motorways are mooted by engineers but brought to life by planners who deem six lanes sufficient for orbital traffic to flow peacefully round London glinting in the sunshine, shining in the rain.
Are you a collector?
‘Are you a collector?’ asked the pleasant lady attendant in a new ‘gallery’ in Exeter’s swanky new shopping centre. ‘He’s very collectible just now, Rolf Harris’, she said. ‘He is eighty-three after all.’
Woodbrooke in winter
Daybreak unveiled a visitation of the ghost of snow: breath of cold condensed on treetops, blades of white grass like raised hackles, the blue and rose of dawn blanched and transfixed.
The Nayler Passion
The Leaveners (Quaker Community Arts) have been busy in the last few months preparing for a major Quaker Music Making project that will be taking place in the autumn of 2013. This week long residential project, taking place at the Bilberry Hill Centre, Birmingham from 28 October to 3 November 2013, is to rehearse...
Balthasar
‘A cold coming they had of it’, Lancelot Andrewes, 25 December 1622
The faith
I need the Quaker faith, Need to hold onto the human race. I need to take a stand, Be a strong man.