Dear Reader I read it Book Review: Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton

Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton It was only the other week that I found a cache of Patrick Hamilton books in Borders book shop.  I had promised myself that I would read the rest of his books, having greatly enjoyed ‘20,000 Streets under the Sky‘.  I bought ‘Hangover Square’, ‘The Slaves of Solitude‘ and the

By All These Drops

One drop for the little blonde one who calls from the depths of my blood. One drop for the Bruce’s kinsman whose gauntlet thrusts from the mud, One drop for the Finnish warrrior seeking the land of the free, One drop for  the son of Glyndwr, whose war cry vibrates throughout me. These bloods I

The Hand that rocks

The silver bough, The earthworn plough That lounges idly by the wayside of this green and once pleasant land Shivers, in the sunshine, neglected The rotting fruit Lie fine art brut. A landscape fit for Covent garden colouring pave Down come the hordes, on crops they gorge And bloated fly away to different climes. Whilst