Poetry – Page 11 – The Flaneur

Around the World in Eight Mistakes – Sophia Walker’s poetry at #Edfringe @PoetWalker

Spoken word is one of the smallest sections in the Edinburgh Fringe programme, but it contains one of the highlights of the festival. Downstairs at the Royal Oak on Infirmary Street, Edinburgh is a great show from Sophia […]

Knots

I think now, in time I will still, it’s a shame all those ships pass with a stare, a smile, and a dynamite stick. Sad buoys splitting to stoke the sun so that we cannot […]

Fishing for Boys

Dancing on, around or near to the ceiling, A slim, shapely lady. With her faceless silver, She is to and fro from me and she knows That I know her purpose. *** Lower, lower. Lower […]

Early Oscar Wilde poem sells for an awful lot of money as does Edward Lear’s Uncle Arly

A hand-written work by Oscar Wilde sold for over £60,000 yesterday at an auction at Bonhams. The poem ‘Heart’s Yearnings’ was signed Oscar O’F Wilde, a signature that Wilde stopped using in 1876. The poem […]