This is the first narrative I've had the opportunity to pen for a few days. The hours ordinarily spend getting my daily literary fix instead taken up preparing for readings I've committed to perform next week in Bedfordshire. Consequently, as opposed to writing a blog on Wednesday and Thursday, yours truly spent several hours editing... Continue Reading →
In Xanadu Did Kubla Khan ……….
English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on this day, in 1772, in the Devon town of Otter St Mary. He was the youngest of Reverend John Coleridge and his second wife Anne Bowden's ten children. Coleridge was said to be a reasonably well behaved child whose crying only kept his mother up once as... Continue Reading →