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...

My previous post looked at the notion of poems which could be considered doppelgangers. But how would it be if two poems got together and...

I had the odd experience the other day of reading a poem that was very much like one I’d written myself. I don’t simply mean that it felt...

In the past few years, whenever I've been reading a Japanese poem or looking at a Japanese painting, I've had the distinct sense of...