Category Archives: Poetry

A Review of “Near Calvary” by Nicholas Lafitte

As a further tribute to John Welch – who published this seminal collection by Nick Lafitte: Alan Morrison on Nicholas LafitteNear Calvary – Selected Poems 1959 – 1970, The Many Press ISBN 0 907326 20 X No Macro Lover Nicholas … Continue reading

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John Welch 1942-2025

x I remember him reading his elusive poems under a gnarled sycamore at the far end of a field on my mother’s Hampshire farm – Purdies Farm – that lovely summer when we held an arts festival there in the … Continue reading

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Snap

x I was a war widow’s only child. Her mother was a frightful tease. She would say anything to get a rise Out of my mother or me. A war widow herself, She lived with her house-keeper As my mother … Continue reading

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Clemency at White Lodge

x THE SUMMER-HOUSE BURIED BY SNOW x There were girls asleep on the beds, upstairs and down. I was living in the dreams of Paul Delvaux. When they woke up, it was slowly, slowly, and then One hit another on … Continue reading

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Autumn

AUTUMN, a fragment of a diary in verse, has just been re-issued as a Grey Suit Heyzine edition See also this list of all books presented in this format CHAINLINK gave Autumn an excellent review, and did an interview with … Continue reading

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THEOSIS

x Uber delivers you your order from MacDonalds. Now you can relax and watch the game. A pop trash white who has somehow risen to the top, As monarch you might well be constitutional But you’re not. Rather, you choose … Continue reading

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My Father and his Motorbike with its Side-car

WILDERNESS ROAD x While seagulls fight for lamp‑posts near the timber stores, Inside the drawer, his folded airmail fades. Behind those bricked-up windows, boarded doors, His motor-bike once led your small parades. x You lost its little rider where the … Continue reading

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A Post for New Year’s day 2026! Plus a Review and an Interview…

Great to find this post today in THE HIGH WINDOW. These are taken from what is now titled my Shorter Poems – which can be read on this Heyzine link. Other works I have published on Heyzine can be read … Continue reading

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The Underground Lurches through the Underworld

x …You will pay Alan your last respects. The date conflicts With a meet proposed by a flirt. Two desires are thus at war And their dispute wrenches you apart, surges like the current In a battery being charged beneath … Continue reading

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Inheritance Tax

The concept of inheritance tax, specifically the vicesima hereditatum, was introduced by the Romans under Emperor Augustus, making them one of the first to implement such a tax. I checked this out because Boadicea complains about it. x …Hence, although, … Continue reading

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