Tag Archives: Poetry

Buried Garden: Lockdown With The Lost Poets Of Abney Park Cemetery, by Chris McCabe

Posted on 22/10/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – Halloween 2021 Buried Garden is the fourth volume of Chris McCabe’s exploration of the so-called lost poets of London’s Victorian cemeteries. These burial places, now known as the Magnificent Seven, were established on greenfield sites on the … Continue reading →

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Great Master / small boy – by Liz Lefroy

Posted on 05/08/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – August 2021 In the summer of 2018 Liz Lefroy and her son, Jonty, took a trip across central Europe. They visited Bonn and Vienna on the trail of art, architecture, history and sachertorte. They were also searching … Continue reading →

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Mind the Gap

Posted on 11/12/2020 by Bobby Seal

I was at a virtual book launch for Liz Lefroy’s I Buy a New Washer (and Other Moderate Acts of Independence) the other evening. Reading from her book, Liz stressed the importance of gaps and spaces in poetry: The gaps … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 51

Posted on 13/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

I came from the sunny valleys And sought for the open sea, For I thought in its gray expanses My peace would come to me. Sara Teasdale – The River   Dee Estuary in Winter ©Bobby Seal

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 46

Posted on 08/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water. Going to church Would entail a fording To dry, different clothes; My liturgy would employ Images of sousing, A furious devout drench, And I should … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 44

Posted on 06/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

                    Along the river                            wild sunflowers                     over my … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 22

Posted on 14/04/2020 by Bobby Seal

Paradise is a salvage operation, A reckoning of what we desire stretched, Unbroken, from here to infinity, like syrup twisted onto a spoon, lifted up high, tipped to a skeining – a long stitch of sweetness mending the ordinary. Liz … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Week 4

Posted on 17/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

Watching the water flow past a bend in the river. The same place, the same time of day, every week for 52 weeks. A year in the life. Week 4 The shops are stripped of all essential goods, the streets … Continue reading →

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Misty Morning

Posted on 20/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

Misty morning Damp, clinging blanket Icy wheedling fingers Into every crevice and crack The trees a hazy, spectral vision Winter-breathed image upon smoked glass slide      

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The City of Dreadful Night

Posted on 06/11/2015 by Bobby Seal

James Thomson was a Scottish-born poet, atheist and anarchist. He struggled with depression, insomnia and alcohol-abuse throughout his short life and his work frequently reflected the bleakness and despair of his life’s experiences. Thomson wrote The Doom of the City … Continue reading →

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