Hi everyone, If there is a Twin Peaks character who sums up 2020 so far, it has to be the reclusive Harold Smith, played so wonderfully by Lenny von Dohlen. I haven’t written any Twin Peaks poetry in a while, but I kept seeing his image pop up on social media and I was compelled […]
Read more "Solitaire – a haiku sequence"Hi everyone, Just giving a little shout out to someone who I work with. Jennifer Barr has been hard at work recording audiobook versions of children’s stories. If anyone is stuck for things to do with children during these locked down times, I recommend you give them a listen. She’s started with Alice in Wonderland. […]
Read more "Barrvellous Books"The Roswell Incident – Part 1 and 2 Hi everyone, Much of my time of late has been spent on things other than this website, so it’s nice to get an opportunity to write something new. I’m glad we’re not that far behind the US in seeing this back on television. The welcome return of […]
Read more "Project Blue Book – Season 2, Episode 1 and 2 Review"Hi everyone, Here begins an unusual adventure. The boy, my son, has been waiting patiently all throughout Reception for the chance to take home Engelbert the Elephant. Every child gets a turn and finally, his came! It would seem, however, that with the Government’s decision to close schools until further notice, Engelbert’s stay with us […]
Read more "The Interminable Isolation of Engelbert"Hi everyone, The good people at 25YL were kind enough to publish a little something of mine about my favourite sci-fi franchise of all time… https://25yearslatersite.com/2020/03/16/the-mass-effect-franchise-is-about-choices-steeped-in-consequences/ Hope you enjoy it, Richard
Read more "Mass Effect article published"Hi everyone, I’d like to present my latest poem, A Projection of a Man. It’s about the dangers of being obsessed and anxious with how we are seen by others to the point that we put everything on the surface and do not pay attention to the depths of ourselves. This is a ‘worst case […]
Read more "A Projection of a Man – a poem"Hi everyone, I felt the need to share my views on this song. I was going to say that it’s Liam Gallagher’s new song, but that just demonstrates how up to date I am as it came out last summer. As usual, I am reliant on others to bring me kicking and screaming into modernity. […]
Read more "Once, by Liam Gallagher – instant classic"Happy World Book Day everyone, Thought I’d share my costume from today at school. I decided to be Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, as it’s one of my favourite poems. Costume nice and easy – just yoga stuff. I had fun making my albatross (it’s always nice to challenge yourself with something you’re not very good at […]
Read more "World Book Day 2020"Hi there, As it says in the title, this is just for fun and if you ask me in a week’s time, a couple of these might be different. As I sit here, however, these are my favourite 20 songs. I’m not going to go into reasons for each one; suffice to say that they […]
Read more "My Top 20 Songs – just for fun"HI there, We’re having a writing competition at school for the children along the theme of time travel. One of the categories is poetry; the children have to write a poem entitled The Speed of Light. I couldn’t resist having a go myself, thinking about some of Carl Sagan’s thoughts on the universe. I chose […]
Read more "The Speed of Light – a sonnet"Books, games, music, and life — filtered through the mind of a writer, drummer, and philosopher who thinks too deeply about all of it. If it moves something in your chest, I'm interested.
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