Gerard Manley Hopkins cropped up in my previous blog. And I was reminded of him again this week when I came across the poetry of Shono...

It was fun the other evening reading Jabberwocky to my nine year old son. And even more so when my wife came into the room and proceeded...

I’ve slowly been working my way through an anthology of mid-20th century Japanese poetry called Like Underground Water. By and large, the...

Back to the Japanese poet Ishikawa Takuboku whom I mentioned in a previous blog. While his given name was Hajime, Takuboku was a pen-name...