In The Poetry

The pieces I’m now going to read come from a journal I kept on and off over a number of years. Mostly they concern events on a farm in the middle of Devon. Farming being the absorbing business it is I’ve never written about it systematically but occasionally, after some striking happening, I’ve goaded myself [...]

The pieces I’m now going to read come from a journal I kept on and off over a number of years. Mostly they concern events on a farm in the middle of Devon. Farming being the absorbing business it is I’ve never written about it systematically but occasionally, after some striking happening, I’ve goaded myself [...]

Here is one of my prize catches. I used to be a very keen angler for pike, and I still am when I get the chance. I did most of my early fishing in a quite small lake, really a large pond. This pond went down to a great depth in one place. Sometimes on [...]