from Windows   In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open …

        Garden God   Easing her flip-flops and ectopic body down the lamp-post, this grasshopper of a girl fringed with electricity from São …

        Villa D’Este   More water, extravagant upshootings and downpourings of it, unbottled from the veins of a Borgia. Such force and power …

        Small griefs,   like looking up from the page and realising that the train, for quite some time, has been moving through …

          Mindfulness   Imagine truly being in the present, Our every thought upon a plane like one Mapped out by Euclid. Here, …

        The pool below the oak   Remember this: a driftway brimming cow parsley, bramble, its green beaded fruits; the field into which …

image © Marlon James       The Water in the Pond Considers Narcissus   He looks at me and sees right through me, as …

  Oliver writes: These are part of a ‘calendar’ of 12 poems set in Pitshanger Park, near where I live in Ealing. The Park is …

        Re: Application FAO Dr Bob Pintle Senior Lecturer in Professional Creativity, Peterborough University and also dedicated to Dr Andrew Taylor, who did …

        Chance: a dream   Yes. It was you. From its small source my heart rushed like a flooded beck. But would you …