Gustav Holst Considers a Pebble While Composing ‘The Planets’ He cradles its convexitiesin the palm of his hand,feels its significance,weighs its bulk. Striated it could be Saturn,whose drawn linesare deeply scarredfrom hard-earned experience. Pockmarked with craters,it could have been Mars. … Continue reading
Prior to writing this review I was listening to a recording of Elgar’s ballet ‘The Sanguine Fan’. Written in 1917 for the benefit of wartime charities, the name derives from the fact that the theme of the piece was inspired … Continue reading
Greg Freeman is a former newspaper sub-editor, and now, news and reviews editor for the poetry website Write Out Loud. He co-comperes a monthly poetry open-mic night in Woking with Rodney Wood, and his debut poetry pamphlet Trainspotters was published … Continue reading
Native American author, concert performer, lyricist, artist and filmmaker, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, is the Editor-in-Chief of the 19-year old literary and cultural arts journal Quill & Parchment and the founder of fogdog poetry in Arlington, WA. Widely anthologised, her recent … Continue reading
Chandra Gurung, who comes from the Himalayan country of Nepal, but is currently based in Bahrain, writes poetry in the Nepali language and translates poems from Arabic, Hindi and English into Nepali. His first poetry collection was published in 2007. … Continue reading
Lightbulb Moments II Chadwick’s neutron, Fleming’s penicillin and Dalton’s law of multiple proportion was a GLS BC/B22 Opal Energizer lightbulb moment. Orville and Wilbur Wright’s petrol-driven aeroplane, Daimler’s petrol-driven car and Becquerel discovering the principles of photo-electric cells was a … Continue reading
The way my mother’s countenance glittersWhen from a land far-offI return home from ‘Mother’ by Chandra Gurung Chandra Gurung is a poet from the remote village of Gorkha in Nepal who grew up in India, where his father was stationed … Continue reading