Anecdotal Evidence

“Whence comes that small continuous silence / Haunting the livelong day?—”   We might think of Walter de la Mare as the poetic opposite of...

The young couple across the cul-de-sac from us have just had their third child, a son this time. The neighborhood has always been rich in ch...

“The attendants at literary tea-parties are not, as a rule, readers of books. Reviews of books are more to their taste.” In my younger yea...

A pleasing and serendipitous convergence: I was listening again to the Sinatra/Jobim recordings from 1967, including their arrangement of “B...

He was friendly, the sort of guy who welcomed strangers of almost any species. Though a little slow, mentally speaking, he usually got our j...

I keep happening on books and poems I think my late brother might have enjoyed. Ken was not a dedicated reader but his tastes tended to be f...

The Scottish Poetry Library in 2006 asked American poet August Kleinzahler to name some of his “old favourite” books. This is how he replied...