Beginning Poetry

Some Thoughts On ‘Doing’ Poetry for The First Time   By John Munson, Swanland U3A Creative Writing Group (personal capacity)with contributions from Christine Williams, Sue Robertson and Diane Wells.   As a young English teacher in a tough Hull school I volunteered to organise the English Club and Magazine. One 14-year-old pupil brought me her poetry notebooks with the invitation to publish anything that I thought […]

Adding a new light

Ernest Hemingway   Words = 1436   Some Spanish is used. The theme is nothingness and nada, meaning both nothing and nothingness, appears many times, along with nada y pues nada. This means either nothing and for nothing or nothing and then nothing. Otro loco mas = another crazy person.   It was very late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat […]