If you make a path through thick or even thickish vegetation you make it look a bit less wild… as if the wildness has now been given your permission to flourish. But at least you can now get through. So we try to keep a mown path across our bit of marsh. Paths are helpful… [Read More]

So I was sitting in a pub reading some stuff about Gerard Manley Hopkins, him being a poet what I like — and I came across Hopkins’s notion that out of the obscurities and difficulties of his work a poem should “explode into meaning”. I was much taken with that. We’ve all experienced that sudden… [Read More]