A few words about the piece below. I wrote the first draft of it in 1989, a year after the … More
Tag: Family
Brother, genius
One of the central influences on my life is not a poet in the usual sense of the word, … More
#NaBloPoMo 19 – My son’s coats
Come to me as a heap on his bed, the Jurassic layers of his early adulthood here in Exeter abandoned … More
Together we can beat war as a metaphor for cancer
If there is one difference I hope to make with Love for Now book it is to challenge the overwhelming … More
Can our family escape the tyranny of the screen? by Stephen Carrick-Davies in the Guardian
Can our family escape the tyranny of the screen? Stephen Carrick-Davies’s son suggested a non-screen day every week. The family … More