Three poems inspired by Cerasuolo
Cerasuolo is an Italian village in the province of isernia, Molise. The poems were written there, inspired by what I’ve seen and heard in that beautiful village.
A visit to Carlisle
On the second day of the year, a crisp, sunny winter’s day, we crossed from Lancashire into Cumbria – destination Carlisle. Any preconceived notions we may have had about visiting this attractive border market town were quickly wiped away by the charm of its historical centre containing both a cathedral and a castle. Luckily our…
THE LEGACY: An absurdist story for our times
Shaped by history, shaped by the events of a past unrecorded, unheralded, he parks his little red car, decants his little grey wife and pads around to the boot in order to fetch the array of food shopping, bags carefully arranged side-by-side never one-on-top-of-the-other in the cramped space. His little speckled beige & grey moustache twitches over the extra effort…
Bringing Down the Curtain
A poem I wrote in May 2000 upon meeting a ‘prophet’ builder/labourer in Mahalapye village, Central Botswana, by the river Limpopo.