On reading On Gallows Down by Nicola Chester (pub 2021) – a memoir of place, protest and belonging – this poem came to me, taking her words and trying to apply them to my place, protest and belonging. I was very struck by how little of my life found echo […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
There are many great cities on the surface of the globe. Though I speak only of Oxford I do not mean to imply that the City in which you are sat today is any the lesser. Merely that Oxford is the one of which I am qualified to talk. By dint […]
Estimated reading time: 14 minutes