For several weeks before Christmas I had these words from Ian McMillan’s peerless ‘Stone, I Presume’ rattling around my head. … More
Category: Martin Stannard
Meditation on a line by Martin Stannard (LentBlog2)
A line that has really been haunting me recently is ‘Horses turned out into a cold field have it’ from … More
#NaBloPoMo 16 – To autumn
What I love about autumn is the night arriving early. What I hate about autumn is the day leaving even … More
Lifesaving Poems: Don Coles’s ‘Photograph in a Stockholm Newspaper for March 13, 1910’
Isn’t Twitter a marvellous thing? Following a link on a tweet of Jeanne Duperreault last week I came across the Canadian Poetry Online … More
On Martin Stannard and Paul Scholes
‘If he had been Spanish then maybe he would bave been valued more.’ -Xavi Hernandez (Spain and Barcelona) on Paul … More
Lifesaving Poems 