Commuting
Please note that more of David King's poetry on GlobalComment can be found here. - The Management. Hell begins at six and has six lanes Damp black asphalt, slashed by hard white lines, And crawled by...
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Oxford’s Conservative Association: the other scandal
The University of Oxford has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons, thanks to a few unruly members of its now disowned Conservative Association. The sordid tale revolves around an event...
Gentlemen of Bacchus
We are they whose loud carousing, Tankards deep and anthems rousing Fill the inns, the drink espousing: Gentlemen of Bacchus. As on drunken nights aplenty Since before the age of twenty; Alcoholic...
June Sunset
Dusk comes gently here; the shadows creep Like furtive lovers,all things to enfold In arms of darkness. Luna watches bold The leisurely seduction, so to keep The rendezvous of twilight's...
What Just Happened? The fringe appeal of the BNP
I think it’s quite safe to say that the European and local government elections last week did not go well for the government. It comes as little surprise given the popularity of the current...
Sigurd and Gudrún is classic Tolkien, but not business as usual
One might be forgiven for imagining that there is nothing new about an edition of unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien. Since his father's death in 1973, Christopher Tolkien has released The...
Estuary Sands, 11:00
Author's note: The Saxon referred to in the fourth stanza is the anonymous author of the Anglo-Saxon elegy known to us as The Seafarer. It almost certainly wasn't written anywhere near Exmouth (my...