Wrestling Emily Dickinson

Don't tell me I look better when I come back to your world today, where I must resort to the shorthand of using words like 'girlf...

You said I touched myself in the shower and tears came to my eyes and I nodded in a non-committal way, but wanted to tell you about the ...

Don't weep for the seeds you were hoping to sow, dead before you plant them: just put on a proper suit, do up your tie and sing the n...

I haven't written anything here in a while. Partly this is because I have, as longtime readers will be aware,  increasingly been wri...

I need to know it's there: the escape key, the toppled King, the hand brought down three times, the towel thrown in: it has to be a...

I built three walls around my heart, 'til you came, making me feel the old fear again: someone colossal enough to see the life I hid ...

With the news this morning that he  died at the age of 69 , today is a difficult day to be a David Bowie fan. Like many of us, I grew up in...