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War Cemetery
Remembrance Day coming up, and I remember my father, his life, his death. His poems were re-published last year in U.K., and they take me back to the years when I read and re-read them to try to discover who … Continue reading
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Studio Portrait 1942
Remembrance Day is over for this year. But the fear born in wartime lives on for those who lived it. I’ve noticed an increasing number of people writing about their childhood experiences of war. Don’t forget the children …. A … Continue reading
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A Book Called “Poems”
November was the ninth month of the year in the Roman calendar, which is where it gets its name from: the Latin word novem or nine. Then, when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1582 it got shifted to being … Continue reading
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October 1942
The battle of El Alamein was one of the major turning points in WWII. Here’s my take on it, and how my father turned to poetry to deal with war. OCTOBER 1942 El Alamein – the place where poetry became … Continue reading
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