The trumpeter Guy Barker must be well on his way to becoming a national treasure, at least in those parts … More
Month: December 2016
Christmas Eve
The blog posts from the poet, Helen Mort, which I follow, are always a pleasure to read. Her final post … More
‘Spoken not read’
There’s no argument here that Dylan deserved to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, not least because he changed our … More
English landscape
I am in Cambridge from time to time, and stumbled across the small gallery that Downing College has opened … More
Toussaint’s American songbook
A colleague was visiting New Orleans for the first time, and for the second time in a week I … More