Welsh Dunking Poem

By Barbara Daniels, Min yr Afon, New Market St, Usk, Gwent NP5 1AT With every cup of tea I’ve drunk I’ve always sough the perfect dunk, how long the biscuit takes to get the optimum degree of wet. And now he’s found it; 3.5 seconds on average, so I’ve retested his...
My career in poetry

My career in poetry

I am stimulated to write this post by the news that the “celebrated American poet Joseph Charles McKenzie” has composed a poem to celebrate Donald Trump’s inauguration. The poem contains the immortal lines “With purpose and strength he came down from his tower To...
Vale Leonard Cohen: that’s how it goes.

Vale Leonard Cohen: that’s how it goes.

Leonard Cohen has died. Perhaps he should have received a Nobel Prize, or shared one with Bob Dylan, because he certainly produced some of the most memorable descriptions of the human condition to be found anywhere. The one that sticks in my mind is this: Everybody...