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Stagnation

Above is an illustration for a poem I wrote called Stagnation. The artist who created this beauty did so most generously and I feel that this is a gift. I am most grateful. Goncalo is a genius. Please visit his blog, Alienato https://goncalojuliao.wordpress.com To...

What have I become?

I was talking to a colleague at the end of the last academic year, before I began my experiment of coming back to teaching full time, about the importance of work-life balance. I mentioned that what I had learnt in India had changed me fundamentally, as a person, that...
A poem about refugees

A poem about refugees

“The sea is two faced,” he said, fastening the orange life jacket to his chest.  “Hunger is eating our stomachs,” she said, wrapping her phone in plastic.  “They call it the Aleppo sling in the market where we sit...