Tag Archives: poetry

Poems To Live By: ‘Love (III)’

Posted on March 29, 2018 by The Lone Reader Blog

There is nothing like a satisfactory meal. The only thing which can possibly improve on it is a meal with people you love and value. Or, even greater, people who love and value you. The food, the drink, the pleasure … Continue reading →

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Poems to Live by: ‘Broadcast’

Posted on February 13, 2016 by The Lone Reader Blog

Broadcast  Giant whispering and coughing from Vast Sunday-full and organ-frowned-on spaces Precede a sudden scuttle on the drum, ‘The Queen’, and huge resettling. Then begins A snivelling of the violins: I think of your face among all those faces, Beautiful … Continue reading →

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Poems to Live By: ‘In my craft or sullen art’

Posted on January 9, 2016 by The Lone Reader Blog

In my craft or sullen art In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not … Continue reading →

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Poems to Live By: ‘Tomatoes’

Posted on June 5, 2015 by The Lone Reader Blog

There’s a certain irony to 24 hour news. It feels as if the more news we get, the less important it all seems. It certainly feels less real somehow. Whereas thirty years ago, a Michael Burke report seemed to move … Continue reading →

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Poems to Live By: To My Daughter in a Red Coat

Posted on February 23, 2015 by The Lone Reader Blog

To My Daughter in a Red Coat Late October. It is afternoon. My daughter and I walk through the leaf-strewn Corridors of the park In the light and the dark Of the elms’ thin arches. Around us brown leaves fall … Continue reading →

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Poems To Live By: ‘The Shape of Nothing Happening’

Posted on February 13, 2015 by The Lone Reader Blog

The Shape of Nothing Happening Dust knows the places we have forgotten, or we never see, marking out the margins of our world: the window ledge’s cracked paint, the bevelled edges of a door frame, the dado rails, the skirting … Continue reading →

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Poems To Live By: ‘The Tyger’

Posted on January 23, 2015 by The Lone Reader Blog

As a teacher, if I wasn’t sure about what to teach, the following poem was the one I usually turned to. It worked with pupils of all ages, from year 7 right through to A Level students. As a result, it … Continue reading →

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Dannie

Posted on December 22, 2014 by The Lone Reader Blog

On a Sunday afternoon this year, I received an email from a close friend with the simple title, ‘Dannie’. I understood at once what it meant. One of the greatest Welsh voices of the last seventy years had finally been … Continue reading →

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Learning to read

Posted on March 5, 2013 by The Lone Reader Blog

If Steinbeck was alive today he’d be 111 years old. That’s about how old I feel after every time I read ‘Of Mice and Men’. Don’t get me wrong, I like it. Or I should say, I liked it. For … Continue reading →

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‘Lightning Beneath the Sea’ by Grahame Davies

Posted on February 28, 2013 by The Lone Reader Blog

Where better to start this blog than with a Welsh writer, with poetry and with an independent publisher. That should give you a taste of where my preferences lie. Grahame Davies is not your introspective Welshman. Despite contributing to Seren’s … Continue reading →

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