Palaeolandscapes of the Broads
An account of the 'Palaeolandscapes of the Broads' day school, as part of the Water, Mills Marshes landscape partnership programme; July 2019. Continue reading
Tim Holt-Wilson
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Aconitum and Galanthus
At Candlemas-tide Ye gnarled one remembers: Rooted in soil grit fungal crittermush, Coaxing Aconitum and Galanthus Toxins in the bulb Out of Winter rush bravely Shining faces white and yellow Into pale sky; Remembering How ponds will wax and Continue reading
The Stag’s Lament
Horns above me Tail ahin me Hooves beneath me Tripe within me Hail to the Hornèd Fáilte to the Fleet of Foot May fur fly Voice bell loud and strong Trapped in the rut Oh dear
Bowing Out
At the ultimate point Where extinguishing flips A cold switch, chilling dip And the lights go out One by one one by one: Each is a picture, each an image Of people, person, place; The furnishing awareness Dusted with Continue reading
Conserving Norfolk’s Earth Heritage
Text of a Presidential Address (2023) delivered to the Norfolk Norwich Naturalists' Society at Norwich, 26-3-2024 Continue reading
Diatomic
Sweet diatoms You make me smile Algal atoms Too small to see But for my eye Peering microscopically Your fiddly frames Of filigree silica Seem big to me
Seeing with other eyes
This lost country composers do not actually remember, but each of them remains all his life somehow attuned to it; he is wild with joy when he is singing the airs of his native land, betrays it at times in Continue reading
Hemlock
Midsummer midnight,Warm, thick, still,With blizzard of insects lamping.Hemlock stinks,Wants to kills Socrates,Bides its time:Eight foot-highPitiless stunner.
Was Thomas Paine a great man or an agent of destruction?
. The Big DebateTom Paine Festival Diss, Norfolk, England. Feb 6th 2009. Was Thomas Paine a great man or an agent of destruction? Thomas Paine is a controversial figure for left and right of the political spectrum. In the Continue reading
Greyfriars
If ever there were dragons they left their passion here in garnet schist and granite, crazy migmatite of marbled black and white: hot scramblings of the pluton. What’s left of monks is bony, hard to see: a grassy field where Continue reading