Miracle Fair -by Wislawa Szymborska

This week saw the death of poet and Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szmborska. She was 88. Her compatriot Czeslaw Milosz described … More

Top five regrets of the dying -from The Guardian

There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their … More

I went to see a play recently, set in the early 20th century, where a man sat in his office … More

Can our family escape the tyranny of the screen? Stephen Carrick-Davies’s son suggested a non-screen day every week. The family … More

The Other Life in memory of Emily Riall I want to wake up in a house where the … More

photo: Gwenllian Riall Last week I posted a blog about entering remission after treatment for cancer. For me this moment … More

In February I wrote a blog post on the anniversary of my diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL), a cancer … More

What the Living Do Johnny, the kitchen sink has been clogged for days, some utensil probably fell down there. And … More

James Schuyler is back from the dead with the lovely “Other Flowers” a posthumous book of his unpublished, uncollected poems. … More

I will forever be grateful to Emma Metcalfe from the Bath Festivals’ Write Team for recommending to me Mandy Coe’s … More

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A very special thing happened this week: a large delivery of poetry pamphlets fromHappenstance Press arrived. It included the wonderful No … More

Alone I One evening in February I came near to dying here. The car skidded sideways on the ice, out … More

Love Listen Let’s love, listen, take time when time is all we have. Let’s be unafraid to be kind, learn … More

Photo: Andy Oliver In May 2005, the chairman and chief executive of the accountancy giantKPMG was told he had about 100 … More