Diana and Actaeon (1556 – 1559) by Titian Titian’s great painting of Diana and Actaeon has been one of my favourite paintings ever since I went to the great Titian exhibition at London’s National Gallery. It tells the story of…
Moonlight I hope the Oscars Ceremony 2017 doesn’t just get remembered for the chaos that broke our last night over the winner of the best film. OK, it’s extraordinary that it could have gone so wrong and become…
In a collaboration with the multi talented American film-maker Joseph Nussbaum, another of my Fibonacci poems has been turned into a miniature movie using the virtual world of Second Life as its starting point. The result, I think, is…
I wrote a miniature Fibonacci poem five years ago on the gigantic subject of humanity’s ideas of the Universe and religion – well, there’s no need for humility if you’re writing a very short poem. It was called The Music…
I’m sorry everyone, if you’ve been looking for my regular blogs. I’ve been busy all year on my novel-writing activities and decided to give the blogs a rest. Today though, yay, I finished the third draft on my third…
My thanks are due to the multi-talented Joseph Nussbaum for his film, so carefully made, of my poem Silent House. It was a great experience sharing brains with such a perceptive director. It’s great when that solitary poet life can…
Wolfgang Glinka in On Gloucester Road My prose poem, On Gloucester Road, has had an interesting life so far. I wrote it after being contacted with the Moscow-based American publisher, Marco North who was compiling an anthology and asked…
I was very happy to see a fine new animated film, Haiku, by my friend, the talented American composer and film-maker, Tim Risher (aka Joseph Nussbaum). It was exciting that it was based on one of my poems, Haiku.…
Eight years ago, I took my first timorous steps into the virtual computer world known as Second Life. It was an extraordinarily confusing experience having to create a new image for oneself in a massive online animated game where…
No expense has been spared by Uncle Walt’s folk for Johnny Depp’s charismatic return as Captain Jack Sparrow in this funny and action packed sequel. The wedding of Elizabeth Swan (Keira Knightley) and Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) is interrupted when…