Today's posts

When Byron published the first two cantos of his poem ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’ in 1812, he became an instant success. ‘I awoke one morning and found myself famous’ he wrote. What poets today can publish a poem and then say that they awoke and found themselves famous!  A rap singer or a TV reality show star perhaps, but a poet!  Never!  This is the context of today’s poem, ‘How much?’.

‘The Tall Girl from Somerset.’     In Perth, Australia, another person comes and then she goes.