The Book Trunk

poetry

  • Haphazard by Starlight – Poems for Advent

    The Adoration of the Magi, by Andrea Mantegnadd – celebrate Christmas by reading TS Eliot’s ‘Journey of the Being a bit of a magpie, I look at what people write about books, then steal authors and titles for my own use. Sometimes… Continue reading

  • Woods, Sea and Stars…

    Woods etc. has a rather plain cover, so instead,here is a picture in Seawood, at Bardsea, Cumbria. I love Alice Oswald’s ‘Dart’, and ‘A Sleepwalk On The Severn’, which are both long poems, but hadn’t read any of her shorter… Continue reading

  • Lonely Londoners

    On a grim winter evening, when it had a kind of unrealness about London, with a fog sleeping restlessly over the city and the lights showing in the blur as if it is not London at all, but some strange… Continue reading

  • Happy Birthday To Me – and Browning!

    Robert Browning as a young man. Today is my birthday, an anniversary I share with poet Robert Browning, who is 200 today, but seems to have been forgotten in all the brouhaha surrounding Charles Dickens (by the way, Edward Lear,… Continue reading

  • Journey of the Magi

    I seem to be all behind hand with the Advent Bookfest. having missed day yesterday, but I have a poem for you today – TS Eliot’s Journey of the Magi, and if you go to http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7070 you can hear him reciting it… Continue reading