Politics, mandates, and real life
It’s been a while. In real life, anyway. In politics, not so. We’re due to have a new Prime Minister on 13th July, some time in the evening, a Prime… Continue Reading
Richard Pierce – author, poet, painter
It’s been a while. In real life, anyway. In politics, not so. We’re due to have a new Prime Minister on 13th July, some time in the evening, a Prime… Continue Reading
They say a week is a long time in politics. One minute is a long time in world economics. Within a minute of the result of the EU referendum… Continue Reading
with apologies to Lewis Carroll The sun was shining on the sea,Shining with all his might:He did his very best to makeThe billows smooth and bright–And this was odd, because… Continue Reading
Ever since the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU was announced, I have been asking myself whether or not the British public are well enough informed to actually… Continue Reading
It’s almost a month since our 25th wedding anniversary. Real life reclaimed us all too quickly after a wonderful two days in Torrevieja where we retook our vows, witnessed by… Continue Reading
There is an oddityIn you not being just one man’s museAny longer.I have heard the words and songsYour lover has written for you,And they are true. I could never hold… Continue Reading
This evening, I was massaging the feet of one of my daughters. She’s 19 now, and a father does what a father does. I was reminded, and spoke to her, of… Continue Reading
Not a day seems to have passed sinceI last put pen to paper for you,For the passing of yet another year,For you growing beyond me,Past my understanding. February.It’s a month… Continue Reading
As I announced on BBC Radio on 29th January, I will be raising the prices for my ebooks from 1st February. I’ve been thinking about this for a long time…. Continue Reading
Only last night I was talking for an hour with a friend of mine who’d just finished reading Dead Men, telling him how, in my short time on the Antarctic,… Continue Reading