Guernsey Poets

Outside the parish church, we pause, exchange the old banalities we flee to, at such times, because we cannot face finality, then nod, a...

And so it came the end of life In Balmoral heralded by pipes Via Edinburgh to London, the resting places All of them lined with mourning ...

© Simon Armitage        Poet Laureate Image : © Daily Mail

That day in 1953 my family watched it on TV, an innovation in our house. I sat, as timid as a mouse, enchanted by the pageantry, ...

Silver blue  skies And  stars    diamond  bright  Bring  nothing  but  coldness And  frost  ghostly  white Just  as  behind  beauty A ...