Writer of Poetry, Screen Plays, Stage Plays & Fiction
Writer of Poetry, Screen Plays, Stage Plays & Fiction
The Japanese Imperial Army’s
mistreatment of POWs
during World War II was a war crime.
The killing of Japanese civilians
in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
by the United States Army Air Force
was a geopolitical strategy.
Daily, on the tv screen, out of the sky
suffering comes: dust, flames, detritus,
outcries – and the living burdened, fleeing…
…Myanmar, Baghdad, Grozny, the fall
of Paris – long lines of people south
on the roads through the fields of the Beauce,
Paris, 1920
The treaty was signed in the Exhibition Room,
overseen by Marie Antoinette’s
dinner service. Like porcelain owls’ eyes,
they were witnesses of the delegates’ harsh
geometry, the fretwork jigsaw of desk
wallahs – Ottoman Mesopotamia
become modern Syria and Iraq.
Gertrude Bell was one of the delegates:
daughter of a philanthropic iron master;
Oxford graduate like T.E. Lawrence;
cartographer, mountaineer, linguist;
archaeologist, administrator,
public servant;
KEEPING THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING
'CROSSING THE BROOK': J.M.W. TURNER
THE OLD RAPTURES
THE OLD RAPTURES
THE OCCASIONAL JUBILEE