Alwayswriteagain: Israeli Voters Examine Their Scars

Alwayswriteagain: Israeli Voters Examine Their Scars: By the time you read this, the first, intense pain delivered by Israel’s bruising  General Election campaign should have faded – but the sca...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Alas, Poor Yolek!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Alas, Poor Yolek!: The US-Jewish poet Anthony Hecht never sparkled at school! He often referred to his ‘conspicuous’ lack of talent as a boy and explained th...

Alwayswriteagain: Eating Soul Food!

Alwayswriteagain: Eating Soul Food!: "I will … talk with you, walk with you … but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you”. (Shakespeare - The Merchant...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: ‘This Ghastly Masquerade’

PerfectlyWritePoetry: ‘This Ghastly Masquerade’: I guess there’d have been something akin to a nuclear fall-out if the fictional Thomas Gradgrind had met the real-life poet Percy Shelley ....

PerfectlyWritePoetry: She Will Never Be Silenced!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: She Will Never Be Silenced!: No-one is sure of the exact date of Anne Frank ‘s death. We know only that the young diarist died 70 years ago - shortly before the liberat...

Alwayswriteagain: Holocaust Day - Yom Hashoa 2015

Alwayswriteagain: Holocaust Day - Yom Haashoa 2015: For the remainder of today, April 15 2015 and tomorrow, April 16 2015, my cover photograph will be in remembrance. This year I will think mo...

Alwayswriteagain: Still Alice – and Richard, Too!

Alwayswriteagain: Still Alice – and Richard, Too!: I was wrong. I could have sworn that Iris – the biopic of the British novelist, Iris Murdoch – was released after   Away From Her , a fi...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Poetic Gift From a Shah – Fit for a Queen!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: A Poetic Gift From a Shah – Fit for a Queen!: So Queen Elizabeth II is not impressed with the present crop of royal party loot bags! While touring the the digitised archive of royal p...

Alwayswriteagain: Two More Very Narrow Bridges …

Alwayswriteagain: Two More Very Narrow Bridges …: "All the world is a very narrow bridge, but the main thing is to have no fear at all." - Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav The scores of...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Afterlife of a Wandering Sailor-Poet

PerfectlyWritePoetry: The Afterlife of a Wandering Sailor-Poet: Broadcast journalists, Paul Heiney and Libby Purves are still trying to come to terms with the death by suicide of their son, Nicholas al...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Talking - Eating – Poetry!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Talking - Eating – Poetry!: Just in time for National Poetry Month, James Berkowitz , a US-based poet, writer, and multidimensional artist was yesterday interviewed on...