Good Morning – Happy New Week – what better way to start it off than Five Good Things for Monday….
1. Nina Simone singing Feeling Good – Ray Mears chose it as one of his Desert Island Discs recently – good choice Ray!
2. I’ve just discovered ~ Keep This Bag Away From Children – an art and literature magazine and press. The website is updated 2-4 times/week. New print issues are released every 6 months Here is a link to two poems by Claire Phelan
3. I’m currently reading a gobsmackingly good book – The Spinning Heart – Donal Ryan there are a lot of voices to get your head round but each one is rich and true, an amazing achievement…
4. Viburnum Bodnantense – there’s one growing at the top of the bank on the riverside path up into Durham Cathedral, it smells like honey, such a thing of beauty when all the flowers are hiding
5. Am putting a day aside to read – Drysalter – Michael Symmons Roberts latest poetry collection takes its name from the ancient trade in powders, chemicals, salts and dyes, paints and cures – I’ve just downloaded it onto my Kindle but I know I’ll have to buy a copy too, that’s the way with poetry.
If being here and now is nothing more
than memory on the fly, then love
is just a trace of having loved
