Why Muslim women shouldn't wear the niqab, why planes queue up in my head, why swearing and tactlessness get results...

Troy.  Xanadu.  Camelot.  New York.  Tintagel.  Rome.  Atlantis.  Olympus.  Jerusalem.  Some names of real places or imagined places carry huge resonances for an entire culture.  We're affected by

Went to The Maze on Monday night and read 'Marathon' and the first three stanzas of 'Serpent', as part of DIY Poets. Seemed to go down well. There was an excellent jazz band, just female voice, drums and bass, doing fiftie

A recent dream was where I was in a student room (at Oxford?).  I shouldn't have been there.  I was some kind of burglar, finishing off a job.  I was desperately trying to get my things together (plastic bags...?) in order to leave